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Landscape architecture portfoLio Hiwot Tefera
town square design urban farm
Although Zuli Ekimonde and I were in charge of designing and carrying out the drafting process, the origination of the concepts included two other members. Since the goal of this project focuses on children from 3-11 years old, we intended to create a playground that triggers the senses of hearing, touching, seeing and reacting to different spaces.
saLvaged conditions for aLternative beginnings
Our tactile elements vary from the rugged metal sculpted tree to the smooth organic soft vertical garden, our sound elements vary from the xylophone wall that children can interact with to the water feature that trickles using recycled water. In terms of seeing, the idea was to provoke visual sensory through different materials, wood, concrete wall, sand pit, plants, metal water feature, mulch, basket weaving. Moreover, evoking children’s reaction to different spaces was a design concept that drove us to create the wrapping wall for group play, the basket weaving houses for independent play, and the open spaces for parent and children interaction.
wetLand park design impLementation and documentation coLLege of environment and design buiLding Photo of water feature, living wall adjacent to basket weaves
urban case study design for heaLth
hampton hiLL Junior schooL Professional Designer and Drafter University of Kingston (Study Abroad)
Group: Zuli Ekmonde March 2009 (3rd Year) Professor: Simon Location: Hampton Hill, UK
Responsible for, drafting and communicating a construction plan with the board and the contractor with colleague Zuli Ekmonde for implementation.
My colleague and I were in charge of contributing our own design elements, and understanding the verbal description of the other group members and translating it in to a physical design layout. I specifically conceived dimensioning and materializing the living wall, the concrete wrapping wall, the water feature, the paving, and the dimensioning and placement of the basket weaves. Some of our final documents that we submitted to the contractor are the drawings in this portfolio. The final design was implemented with minor adjustments by the contractor.
Plan of Zoning Activities Zone 1: Zone 2: Zone 3: Zone 4: Zone 5: Zone 6: Zone 7:
Curving wall allotment Hanging wall Entrance Hanging Wall Storage Xylophone Living wall & water feature Zone 8: Climbers Zone 9: Climbers Zone 10: Seat wall Zone 11: Open space
Compartments of wall with playing features
Concrete wrapping wall
Section of division of wall units according to uses
Metal sculpture tree The xylophone wall
Plan of elevation change
town square design The first stage of this project was to do social, economic, ecologic and aesthetic analysis of downtown Athens. As a part of the social analysis group I discovered the amount of homeless people that lived on the site, which led me to conclude not to eradicate their physical presence but to provide them with purpose for being. It also revealed to me the lack of space for public expression in Athens. In conceiving the design concept, I concentrated on one word that would enable me to design a public space with many activities. Concept cognition: noun
-the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. -a result of this; a perception, sensation, notion, or intuition.
TL: rendered street painting space. painting space. TR: inistial idea of central space. BL: sketche of the curve seat. BR: existing condition.
canvasquare athens civic space Academic Designer Final Project of fourth year
Independent Project April 2010 Professor: Pardue Location: Athens GA, USA
In this project I was responsible for creating a concept, designing civic space based on the concept, and organizing the programation of the adjacent building uses and transit systems.
The concept is derived from the notion that a true civic space has the responsibility to empower its people, intellectually and emotionally. The design incorporates areas of learning, processing, and expressing. The corners of the design are areas of expression and interaction between people. The statue of Athena is placed on the southeast, on the highest elevation of the site, for free speech and vigil ceremonies. The performing arts space is on the southwest because it is the lowest elevation of the site I formed an amphitheater to enjoy music and theatre. The center, a fairly leveled topography, is a place of reaction and painting while the library, and the proposed museum across the street are elements of teaching. Since the library is under Athens’ Public Library, it can shelve books specifically about gaining skills for work, therefore targeting the homeless by giving the opportunity to explore their interest and aptitude. The Scent, Color and Textural garden on the corners of buildings are dedicated to the way of knowledge through our senses. And the street painting aspect while providing a space for expression, it provides entertainment for the viewers. Accordingly, since the access of knowledge is equally as important, my design also concentrates on enhancing the transportation system of Athens.
urban farm Among the three design projects I did for my summer internship, one of them required an urban farm landscape and an outdoor classroom design behind a historic building in College Park, Georgia. The client envisioned the status of this urban farm to be that of a botanical garden therefore, my partner and I extended our vision by setting the following goals.
Phase 1: Temporary Civic Space
Phase 2: Programming
Top: Section of outdoor classroom pavilion. Bottom Left: Example of proposed plant description. Bottom Right: Example of proposed plant schedule.
Phase 3: Design Development Stage
city of coLLege park urban design Professional Designer Internship
Partner: Lauren McDonald July 2010 Supervisor: Gail Webb Location: College Park, GA, USA
The responsibilities of this project included, site surveying, generating a design, programming activities, and cost estimation of plants and materials. We produced a 20 page report on the execution of the design for the county so they can use it to ask for grant from the state.
Goals 1) Incorporate agricultural space for local food production for nearby residents 2) Encourage community activity in food production 3) Create a comfortable outdoor learning space 4) Provide spaces for social events, commerce and lounging The site did not have much limitation aside from existing invasive plants and deteriorating sheds that we proposed to remove. Therefore with plenty of space, we preserved the existing large oak and pecan trees and included the following elements in our final design. Objectives 1) A composting station for the commercial farm 2) A large commercial farm land to bring income to the institution 3) Two circular hardscaped multi-use open spaces 4) A sheltered classroom using a pavilion structure and open meadow for playing 5) A community garden space with 6�-12� raised bed for residents to rent In addition to designing, we were in charge of plant selection and availability, therefore this project included contacting nurseries and implementing native wild flowers, and suitable fruit trees for the site in a affordable manner.
View of outdoor classroom pavilion and path to the multi-use open spaces
Rendering of proposed compost station behind the commercial farm
View of raised beds for the community garden leading to the circular open spaces Section
saLvaged conditions for aLternative beginnings
On a 10’x10’ site, the project required to finding a scarred space in downtown Athens, that can be healed by using the materials that contribute to its damage. The aim is to redesign the site by using recycled materials and to use cultural context as inspiration. Injuries and Solutions Social Injuries: Inaccessibility because it is closed off Solution: Break blocking wall and create a pathway Injuries: It doesn’t accommodate activity Solution: Provide seats, tables, and create view
Left: Idea of breaking the existing wall and adding a curved path and a door. Middle: Plan of curved path with concentric benches. Right: Sketch of sing curved light poles and existing theatre lights. Bottom Right: Perspecive view of design from the main street.
theatre on the street Academic Designer Fourth Year
Independent Project May 2010 Professor: Pardue Location: Athens GA, USA
The size of the site is a 10 x 10 feet scarred area in downtown Athens. I was in charge of generating a healing design and producing three schematic concepts, finalizing one and presenting a final plan, two sections, a perspective view, and a material implementation guideline.
Economic Injuries: Under used thus its a lost asset to Georgia Theatre which is located adjacent to the site Solution: Change the aesthetic to create an animated space using theatre lights to attract view to Clayton street hence making Clayton Street the stage for drama. Concept Let the side walk and the street act as the stage and let the park act as the theatre where people can observe. The abandoned theatre lights shall enhance the drama of the street. This concept was inspired by the Georgia Theatre that burnt down two years ago and it aims to preserve the legacy of its importance to Athens’ music culture. Exploded axon of design elements
Site Analysis and Materials Palette The majority of the materials proposed for this design are found on the site. Damaged equipment from the theatre such as metal seats and theatre lights; and unused lumber from the current construction are to be used for this design. Master Plan
wetLand park design The Wey and Arun Canal Trust wanted to restore an old canal that has dried up from River Wey to River Arun. The Trust did not have an agenda for when to build the canal,thus in until the meantime this project proposal can provide use for the land and can function simultaneously even when the canal is built. Creating connectivity through the use of bike routs and pedestrian pathways is a major aim in this project since its strategically located between three town centers. At the same time accommodating flood plains, meadows, woodlands, and wild flower plants in this wetland is essential in reviving life in to the landscape.
annual flood level
Material use guidelines
existing channel previous bank edge
new wetland basin
Section A: View to Clayton street from designed site Top: Section of wetland before and after it has been connected to the river. Middle: Photo of Tannery bridge. Bottom: Photomontage of Tannery bridge with proposed design.
wey and arun canaL Academic Designer and Drafter University of Kingston (Study Abroad)
Section B: View from behind Georgia Theatre
Independent February 2009 (3rd Year) Professor: Simon Location: Gilford, UK
In this project I did an extensive research about canals and their context in the UK. After understanding the nature of hydrology in the site I executed a wet land park design and produced construction details for the Wey and Arun Canal Trust.
Objectives 1) Create a wetland park that can be home to various plant species following the natural topography while respecting the flood cycle 2) Create promenades along the river that wrap around the wetlands, for biking, jogging and horseback riding 3) Provide sitting areas by the ponds and the river through the use of decking 4)Provide sheltered sitting areas through out the meadows through the use of Gazebos
Concept diagram Meadow and wetland vegetation Wetland ponds Leisure space Existing bike route Proposed bike route Existing main road
Proposed bike route
Proposed ponds and areas of leisure
Master Plan (South side)
wetland impermeable liner (30mm PVC) water table level surface flow
Detail for wetland construction
Section of deck on pond Proposed meadow
Inventory & analysis
impLementation and documentation
Bridge Design: Loading is determined by the amount of pedestrian and bikers. This a bridge connecting two bonds, no boats we will be passing through
The main objective of this project is to acquire the skills and follow the steps of documentation for a final implementation stage. Documentation stages are divided in to 6:
Bank Protection: In cases were there are marginal plants Bank Protection Type 1 should be applied. In cases where the river has a clear cut edge Bank Protection Type 2 should be used
1) Schematic Design 2) Grading Plan 3) Planting Plan 4) Material Plan 5) Stakeout Plan 6) Construction detail and specifications
Schematic Design Narrative
Land use & features
Type 1 Wetland Edge: Type 1 is used for naturally sloping Edges and Type 2 is used for steeper sloping edge with marginal plants
uga war memoriaL garden Academic Designer and Drafter Implementation Documents Studio
Fall Semester 2011 Professor: Calabria Location: Athens,GA
Responsible for designing and carrying out all documentations for final construction stage. Flooding Type 2
This is a design narrative of a soldiers life. Reading left to right it starts with its militaristic ways of being linear, rigid, and organized in his or her training and embarking to war. Graduating and succeeding in her or his practice the arched pathway from the ROTC building symbolizes the walk of life in war and struggle. The spiral pathways represent life’s unpredictablity and its tendency to lead us in different directions. Eventually all paths direct us to the life garden where those who lost their friends, relatives and families, have the privilege to plant a seed or a plant a head to symbolize their loss. The planting ceremony should be done twice a year for war and cold season plants to keep it interactive. Plants are placed randomly and under no censorship, ranging from Kudzu, Petunias or Oaks to symbolize life’s impulsive nature. The paths are levelled in a flat elevation while at each edge there is a depression leading to a swale symbolizing our soldiers were living life on the edge for the sake of the country. Their paths are lead to rain garden that replenishes itself seasonally symbolizing recurring remembrance and sentiment.
Section Cut for Construction Detail
Material Call Out Plan
Stakeout Plan: Dimension and Placements
coLLege of environment and design buiLding The concept behind the new College of Environmental Design building design is derived from the notion that landscape architects create rhythm on the landscape through their designs. Therefore, the building is imitative of two drums meshed together. The main circular building is the larger drum while the one adjacent to it is its smaller version. In order to truly mimic the characteristic of a drum, the buildings take on a cylindrical form that decreases as it goes down. Moreover the patterns of the windows represent the top part of a drum where the leather skin is stretched to the bottom using strings. On the other hand, Denmark is preserved because design something new doesn’t mean the old has to be wiped out. Since this college also contains a Historic Preservation program, the students of the HP program can enjoy the historical quality of Denmark Hall.
Top: Building form, Middle: Indoor perspective, Bottom: Building section A’-A
Even though an instrumental object inspires the form of the building, in laying out the floor plans land uses the objective is to encourage interaction between the different levels of program, create out door spaces through out the building to represent the professions unique relationship with the outdoors, and provide flexibility in rearranging uses. Design elements to encourage interaction
weLded drums Academic Designer Architecture Studio
November 2011 (5th year) Professor: Verma Location: Athens, GA
This project consisted of developing a concept for a new design building for the landscape architecture program. I completed illustrating floor plans, sections, section elevations and perspective views of indoor and outdoor spaces.
1) Niches on all floors for student lounging or access to a balcony or a green roof 2) A main connecting hallway through the second floor that allows for easy movement and places to gather. 3) An atrium on each floor that has an 8’ wall surrounding it, which serves as a connecting element for all the floors through the open 4’ open air. 4) Display walls located by the stairs and elevator for people to stop and observe.
Design elements that morph interior and exterior spaces
urban case study
1) A balcony or a green roof on each floor easily accessible from all the studios and offices. 2) Open air below buildings for pedestrians, meaning the three buildings are not a single block but are carefully dismantled to let air in. 3) A framed courtyard garden between the three buildings 4) Extended pattern of the 1st floor to the smaller drum and Denmark Hall for outdoor seating and bike parking.
The city under investigation in this research project is Tunis, Tunisia, particularly the region of Berges du Lac located on the northern shore of Lac de Tunis. Berges du Lac, ‘bank of lake’, is a micro city with in the city of Tunis, connecting the downtown Tunis in the south, the suburbs and the city
Design elements for flexibility 1) Open floor plans for the studios besides the designation of faculty offices. Columns are used to delineate hallways, and a few locker walls are used to separate studios, however most of the elements depicted on the floor plans are moveable and flexible prepared for change of use.
Lastly walls and windows are designed for maximum light following an intricate pattern, to represent not only functionality, but also the building as a piece of art.
Future development of Tunis in the direction of the green periphery
of Carthage in the north. The decision to pick the location of Berges du Lac for development in the last 20 years, a former sewage and wasteland, diverts
Current concentration and central points of the city
centralization lifting the weight off of the ‘medina’, downtown Tunis and Carthage, additionally restoring the ecological habitat of the lake. The study explores
Sewage and waste dump until the 1980, breaking point of the coastal settlements and the city
the developments ability to connect that scattered centers of Tunis, and its livability. Programming and zoning, leisure and entertainment, demographics, green spaces and open spaces, transportation, architecture, and design layout are the criteria evaluated in this research.
the Lac nord proJect of tunis: berges du Lac Academic Research Project Urban Design Studio
Spring Semester 2010 Professor: Pardue Location: Athens,GA
Research criteria: Chose a modern urban planning or design method from a specific city around the world and through research and analysis judge if the particular planning or designing method is successful.
Land use and Zoning
Conclusion Commercial & Office Spaces
How does Berges du Lac influence future urban planning
design for heaLth
and urbanization in Middle Eastern and Sub-Saharan
Public Green Spaces
African cities? The issue with cities of the third world is
Public Service Buildings
the rapid urbanization, the drastic switch in jobs from
Leisure & Entertainment
agricultural to industrial and public service sectors which
puts a heavy burden infrastructurally and economically
Client: Foundation Esther Boucicault Stanislas (FEBS),founded by Madame Boucicault, the first Haitian to publicly discuss having HIV/AIDS. FEBS put up the Kay e Sante nan Ayiti competition with the vision of creating a community and residences for HIV/AIDS patients to recuperate and build physical and mental strength and stability.
in the capital cities. Berges du Lac performs as a model
The land uses of Lac are not as divided as the map depicts, the map shows majority uses in terms of concetration.
for cites with large population and economic growth, containing new settlers or homeowners in the core of the city rather than spreading to the periphery where natural habitats, agricultural land is disturbed and heavy grading
Design Layout Differences
Goal: Design a residential community for HIV/AIDS patients where stress reduction and stamina building are the core concerns.
is required. The ‘medina’, the historical and cultural heart of North African and Middle Eastern cities has always
Location: Bois L’Etat 5.87km east of St.Marc Area: Approximately 13,400 sq.m. (3.3 Acres)
been endangered from rapid modern urbanization; Tunis is successfully increasing centrality outside of the ‘medina’, in Carthage, Gammarth, La Marsa and now Berges Atlantic Ocean
Modern European City
Old Tunis ‘medina’
Open spaces and Walkability
Berges du Lac
kay e sante nan ayiti: housing & heaLth in haiti For the rest of Sub-Saharan cities, that severely suffer from sewage and wasteland management, where in different cores of the cities smell and toxicity averts
Paved public spaces between buildings
from settlement and causes health issues, Berges du Lac can be an example for these areas to be reclaimed, rehabilitated and perform as urban centers.
Vehicular and pedestrian traffic
Academic Designer and Drafter Terminal Year Project
Spring 2011 5th Year Professor: Pardue Location: St.Marc Haiti
Responsible of creating a senior project proposal, site visit, topic research, site inventory and analysis, master plan, site plan supplemental images, grading plan, construction detail and final report with exhibition.
Perspective of open lawn with different sized planters and two bamboo gazebos for organized exercising activities and people watching
Concept crescendo: noun
-a progressive increase in force or intensity
In music crescendo is the loudest and highest intense sound, where the music climaxes and comes to life. The goal of this design is to provide elements of physical and mental therepy thus bringing each patients to their maximum wellness. Therefore just like the climaxing points music, different features and activities of the design concentrate on increasing different parts the patients health. strategies of healing 1) healing through meditation 2) healing through socialization 3) healing through being surrounded by nature 4) healing through active gardening 5) healing through exercising
The activities concerning the wellness of psychology are located in Zone 2 where the topography has sharp and steep slopes. High hills and ridges provide striking views and places to gather and socialize, or individually meditate while gazing at the mountains or the ephemeral pond. As the slope change decreases and becomes more constant, the design provides features to increase the physical stamina of the patients. Wheelchair accessible walkways and trails through dense vegetation encourages exercising. These pathways will have benches and gazebos for resting and mental recuperation Master Plan
In Zone 3 there is an edible garden where patients learn how to grow vegetables and spices, therefore while acquiring a skill mental and physical healing occurs by have interaction with nature. The programing also encourages for patients to have organized activities such as yoga, tai chi, and stretching exercises in the lawn surrounded by the triangular planters with
Indoor Relationship Private
Parking Bedroom WC
Bedroom Bedr oom WC
Bedroom Bedr oom
We Welcome center and Medical unit of offices
Balcony View Central gathering space
Transitional Tr ansitional Space
shading trees and gazebos. Finally Zone 1 the flattest and the nears to a main road is going to be a service area, where medical buildings, solar panels, parking lots and golf cart parking is located. Section B-B’
“the porch can be seen as a piece of the house that is part of the street or a piece of the street incorporated in to the house.� -The Afro-American tradition in decorative art
Site plan of ephemeral Pond, meditative terraces, bridges, housing and covered seating Second Floor Plan
Building Exploded Axon
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Bringing in US ground forces to pacify the population and control the insurgent spread is probably not the best choice for Iraq.
There does need to be ground troops present to fill the political vacuum in the region. Aerial strikes aren’t enough to solve the problem of Islamist saturation. In a recent report by the Guardian, Syrian Kurdish fighters are saying that the air strikes are not currently effective enough. The article states that the strikes being implemented by the US, UK, France, and Arab allies aren’t able to interrupt ISIL operations enough to prevent them from taking over the town of Kobani, a city bordering Syria and Turkey.
“Air strikes alone are really not enough to defeat Isis in Kobani,” said Idris Nassan, a senior spokesman for the Kurdish fighters desperately trying to defend the important strategic redoubt from the advancing militants. “They are besieging the city on three sides, and fighter jets simply cannot hit each and every Isis fighter on the ground.”
What the Kurdish Peshmerga have said, is that the ISIL forces are simply too numerous and spread out too much for the aerial strikes to have a meaningful effect. Nassan continues by describing how ISIL insurgents are evolving their techniques to react to incoming air attacks.
“Each time a jet approaches, they leave their open positions, they scatter and hide.”
Continuing on, Nassan makes the clear point that, in the absence of ground forces, aerial attacks are only a deterrent or a distraction.
“What we really need is ground support. We need heavy weapons and ammunition in order to fend them off and defeat them.”
Militarily speaking, fortified ISIL locations are being destroyed and they are losing men and materiel. More importantly, key strategic points in the ISIL logistics network are being taken down, weakening all other offensive capabilities. The problem is that there is not adequate ground forces covering the advance. If, in all other locations around the city ISIL is able to continue their advance, even creeping at a house an hour, those destroyed defensive locations are not going to mean much, as they would eventually move well behind the effective lines of battle. Without a follow-on force to retake the ground that ISIL temporarily lost, they will be able to return. The situation for the Syrian Kurds in Kobani is now getting desperate. Some reports have shown that a Kurdish fighting woman suicide bombed near a group of ISIL fighters. Use of such tactics shows the extent of the desperation, that Kobani defense fighters have accepted a certain degree numerical casualties, but that they are willing to make the sacrifice if they believe they can guarantee a certain level of Islamist fatalities. While grim, this tactic also doesn’t solve the problem of not enough men to occupy the town. While suicide bombing does provide a high level of killing power, it also robs the defenders of one more person capable of retaking the city later. Saturation of infantry forces is key to retake, occupy, and defend the city currently under siege and ensure a prolonged counter-insurgency victory.
There are, however, troops in the region which can already provide that level of support. Not that anyone wants to really accept this part, but the Syrians are there, too, namely, Assad’s forces along with the Free Syrian Army. The problem here is that, while there is actually a surplus of fighters in Syria, the intricate web of alliances and enemies makes it advantageous for most involved to let each handle ISIL in their own territory. Quite honestly, they are behooved to see ISIL gains in other territories as it will mean a weakened enemy for them later. For that reason, good fighters, such as the Syrian Peshmerga don’t have adequate support from numerically larger forces, such as the Free Syrian Army, or Assad’s government, nor do troops in the FSA benefit from Kurdish training, experience, and international resources. Together, their combined infantry would not suffer ISIL resistance long, the poltical make up of the groups, however, almost guarantee this to be an impossibility.
Focusing again on Iraq specifically, they are the Iraqi military and the Kurdish Peshmerga. These troops need to be trained up, armed, and more importantly, in the case of the Iraqi Special Forces, freed up politically to fight. There are pockets of great fighters in Iraq, namely those Iraqi Special Forces, which were originally pulled from the greatest and most experienced troops in the Iraqi military specifically trained for the role of countering insurgency. These forces have been made the private security for Iraqi political elite and kept away from the roles they were designed to do. If you want to understand the failures of the Iraqi military, look at how the ISF has been used for the last three years. Beyond just the ISF, the Iraqi military still outnumbers anything that ISIL might be able to field by at least 20:1 within Iraq. Point in that situation is that there is not a deficit of capable troops. What is lacking is political will and direction to use them.
For that reason, there really isn’t a reason for a massive deployment of American combat troops in Iraq. There is just a need for some sort of direction and capability in leadership for the offensives to take place between the troops of Iraq. Secondly, the American military presence will only do more harm down the road. After ISIL is taken care of, if ever, then it will turn into another occupation where Iraq’s people will go right back to hating us for all the evils we brought down upon them. Next, it will only continue the practice of allowing Iraq to continue on perpetually neutered. The country needs to stand on its own. It needs to feel independent. It will never do that if some foreign force continues to dictate their day to day life as has been the case for centuries. They need to believe in themselves, as a nation, and be the crucial leader in solving this problem… their problem. Lastly, the Americans shouldn’t have a direct ground presence because to do so will only bring back those old whispers of “American Imperialism.” So that I am clear, we didn’t leave Iraq on our own terms. We were asked to leave by the same Iraqi democracy we set out to build. One gets what one asks for, but the point is that when asked to leave, the Americans did leave. We never took Iraq from the Iraqi, but when we could have kept it, we left it alone and in the care of those same Iraqi. In that moment when the last truck rolled over the border into Kuwait it said to the world that we are not the imperialistic dictators that others have made us out to be, especially those living in Iraq. To send troops back in, especially on a permanent basis, would damage that message throughout the world.
That isn’t to say the US should do nothing. Strategic bombing is doing a good job of collapsing vital points in the ISIL military framework. They are being pushed back and recent acts of violence are proving their desperation. More so than that, there is a major land force being deployed to the region. The US Marine Corps has already began deployments in the creation of a new rapid defense force which was invited to be stationed in Kuwait, not Iraq or Syria.
The US Marine Corps is preparing to deploy about 2,100 grunts to be based out of Kuwait in a new unit configuration designed to respond to crises in the region, according to Corps officials.
Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) Central Command will be equipped to perform noncombat evacuation, humanitarian assistance, infrastructure support, tactical aircraft recovery, fixed-site security and theater sustainment missions, said Brig. Gen. John Love, assistant deputy commandant for plans, policies and operations.
The report obtained by The Associated Press in advance of [June 19, 2012] release provided precise numbers on U.S. forces in Kuwait, a presence that Pentagon officials have only acknowledged on condition of anonymity. Currently, there are about 15,000 U.S. forces in Kuwait at Camp Arifjan, Ali Al Salem Air Base and Camp Buehring, giving the United States staging hubs, training ranges and locations to provide logistical support. The report said the number of troops is likely to drop to 13,500.
Along with this, another 1,500 Marines are being sent into Iraq to join others present there already to protect strategic assets owned by the United States, such as American owned industry assets and embassy locations, as well as to train the Iraqi and Peshmerga forces.
Given these initiatives, I feel that the American presence is good thing. It is toned back from the last decade, but lighter and faster to be more prepared to handle future situations far more easily than was the capabilities over the last six months. Situations like what is happening in Iraq right now, can be handled in much earlier stages, without the need for massive deployments, A political breakdown in the nation won’t leave Americans without aid, such as in Benghazi, and new threats can be challenged as they arise throughout the region. Given all that, they won’t be able to fully occupy anything. The task force simply isn’t that large. It will be able to project force and react quickly, but it will take the local nations to take charge of their own futures.
Keeping the American ground forces in the background of the current Iraq conflict is, in my opinion, a good thing. Having them as a final wall against the encroachment of ISIL threats forces the impetus of action on the local national forces. Building a strong and independent Iraq should have been achieved before we were asked to leave. The blame there goes both on our own governmental failings as much as it falls on the Iraqi. Allowing themselves to become so structurally weak and impotent, while being also so arrogant as to dismiss coalition forces in the first place had a very major role in the circumstances that we have arrived at today. Bringing in several regiments of American military infantry support to clean up the mess won’t, however, do anything to solve the long term problems of this new war. For that, the local infantry capable forces are going to need to band together and prepare an offensive and coordinated strategy to end this threat.
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So, it has been quite the busy time here at Yarn Towers.
Between minding a total of 5 family animals, getting the book written, the editing delays and now Christmas upon us, there just seems not to be enough time to do anything lately.
So, I am resorting to making small, cute presents for friends and family. You guessed it, everyone is getting gloves!
And, since I assume you have crocheted yourself into an equally difficult corner this year, I've decided to slash 25% off the price of all my glove patterns on Ravelry until the 14th. All you need do is use the voucher code: ILUVGLOVES at check out in my Rav Shop and you'll get my glove patterns with a whopping 25% off! That's a whole quarter! Add that to the fact that gloves are always welcome this time of year and that they are small, but impressive as a gift, you'll be sorted in no time!
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The City of Vancouver is an amazing place and I have been lazy. My lack of updating this blog has no excuse… So here is something.
My deck is also an amazing place… and it has an amazing view of the city. When the wind comes in from the west on a semi-clear evening the clouds do a dance. This is the show through my window that I love to watch.
The 2012 British Columbia Cyclocross Championships took place at Mahon Park in North Vancouver. The sloped course is tight, fast and has a wicked bog at the bottom. The racers were pushed to the limit and many broke. Those that could handle the varying weather and a challenging course took home the hardware for 2012. This particular race I focused on video rather than photos and spliced together a short recap of the Masters and Elite races for your viewing pleasure. Just imagine that you are on a 2:37 elevator ride and I know you will appreciate the music that accompanies the video…
Probably the most epic ride you can do in Utah is the Whole Enchilada. This ride climbs over Burrow Pass at a whopping 11,500ft and descends to a basin of 4000ft. Huge decent, some ass-kicking climbs and a ton of fun. The best part of the ride though is the diversity of terrain on the way down. Starting off in the alpine riding into an fall-coloured Aspen forest then into the Moab desert. The ride is simply amazing!
Day 3 in Moab Utah. This is Amasa Back. As the title says, life is short and photos say more than words so have a quick watch below and see what a great day of mountain biking entails.
Day 2 of Moab Utah took on the Poison Spider Mesa followed by Long Canyon. A great day of mountain biking and a great day to be outside in the sun. Here is another slide show that runs through a few of the days events.
I have been working for a while now with Yess Products, Norco Bicycles and Jill Kintner on the production of her custom Slalom bike that she raced in Sea Otter. The idea was to follow the bike from start to finish. The full article can be found on norco.com but here are a few shots and a video from the production process.
Another year at the Seattle Bike Expo. North America’s biggest bike club, The Cascade Bicycle Club has yet again put on the largest consumer bike show in North America. The Seattle Bike Expo attracts some 5000(ish) consumers each year as they come to see new products, get a deal and see some rather rediculous shows.
This year, in the absence of the German artistic Cycling team Nick Hayden and Wendy Allen of the “a Unicycle Built For Two” in an equally ridiculous demonstration of “artistic cycling”. To level the playing field though The Ride and Glide BMX Stunt Team
Overall a fun but rather interesting event. Here are a few shots and a rough cut video summing it all up. The biggest question though is what 90s TV show did the video’s song come from?
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, or as you may know them, “that band from the Heineken commercial” ended their North American tour in Vancouver. Touring with Vacationer the Danish Pop-Band led by Mette Lindberg had their wrap up concert at the Venue on Granville St. The band’s energy was electric, the sound wonderful and the whole gig was a great event.
The highlight of the night for me was the cover of Men Without Hats – Safety Dance. An absolutely ridiculous song from a ridiculous time tied together with a ridiculous music video. The audio is not amazing in this clip but it is still worth a watch.
Once every few years when the lemming population runs low in Northern Canada, as a result Snowy Owls make the trip South to Boundary Bay BC. 2012 is one of these years; there are hundreds of these majestic birds calling this home as we speak! The birds hang out in the flats where they are able to hunt with ease. There are also numerous other birds of prey species in the area such as eagles and hawks. If you are looking to head out and see the owls for yourself this is where you need to go .
The video and photos were made using a Canon 7D, Canon 300mm f4l and Canon 2x extender II.
Today I went for a ride on the trail Ladies Only found in North Vancouver on Mt Fromme. One of the classic trails of the area it is a great combination of roots, rocks and bridgework. I did a bit of filming for a Norco Video coming up in January but thought I would put some riding clips from the trail into a short video for the blog. Great December day for a ride! | <urn:uuid:d0aa3cd4-20a1-45eb-8864-cacfbfb3d557> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://mylifeinimages.com/tag/video/ | 2017-11-23T18:38:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806856.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123180631-20171123200631-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.957699 | 1,017 | [
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Newsletter – Introduction to the EQUAL-IST project
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Are you interested in gender equality? This is the project’s ultimate goal and now you know! A project presentation is available here. A fun way to understand what the project is about, what is the main challenge, the project tackles, and the main methodology, we use. Bonus: a short presentation of the Advisory Board members!
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Post by Hayley Wolfcale, Copy Director
All components of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are important for a brand’s website ranking in the search engine results page (SERP), but one of the most important factors is the content implemented on each Web page. When searchers type in a query, they’re directed to the most accurate page based on their intent. By optimizing body copy to provide consumers with relevant information, brands can rank higher in the SERP.
So, how can brands optimize their body copy to be relevant and informative to rank on the first page?
- Keyword Research
Each page of content that brands either create or optimize should include their own set of keywords. By conducting appropriate keyword research, brands can understand what types of search queries are most common within their region and language. Brands should choose a primary keyword and a secondary keyword (when appropriate), with the primary keyword being used most often, and early on in the copy. These keywords should reflect the topic of the page, and they should be thoroughly researched for relevance, search volume and competition prior to usage.
Tools such as Google AdWords Keyword Planner can provide brands with knowledge surrounding keyword spikes in certain times of the year; this is specifically helpful for seasonal and/or holiday content.
- Brevity of Content
When brands implement copy on their page, they should be careful about including too much copy. Brands should intend to reach their audience without the over usage of keywords. While informational pages should be as long as necessary to convey the message, product pages and other types of content don’t necessarily have to have paragraph after paragraph of description and superlatives.
The copy should reflect the page’s product, service or informational purpose without adding additional “fluff.” The cleaner the page, the better. Why? If the page is too long, and filled with too much unnecessary information, it’s likely that consumers will leave the page and look for a simpler, to-the-point version elsewhere.
- Avoid Over-Optimizing
Brands should beware of over-optimizing a page’s body copy. Google takes notice to this type of action, especially if brands are placing too many of the same keyword, or versions of that keyword, in the copy. Doing this indicates that the copy is filled with a bunch of similar keywords so that it can rank, not so that it can provide consumers with relevant information. The ultimate end-goal of optimizing site copy is to have visitors come to that page, and hopefully continue along the purchasing path. If the content is stuffed with keywords and doesn’t make sense, consumers aren’t likely to purchase. What matters more are the conversion rates, not just the page views.
Recently, we were tasked with optimizing the body copy for one of our clients who was only interested in one conversion metric: getting visitors to sign up for a package of deals and samples. The sign-up page had very little copy and didn’t rank on the first page for any non-brand keywords, unlike competitors, which were holding court in the first and second positions.
We identified the most valuable non-brand keywords these competitors were using. Our client ranked in position 11, on the second page, for the primary keyword, “free [redacted] samples,” and didn’t rank at all on the first 100 pages of results for the secondary keyword, “free [redacted #2] samples.”
We provided META tags and body copy optimized for these keywords. The brief body copy edits were enough to rocket the client’s page to the top of the first page in a matter of weeks (the META tags were not implemented due to an oversight). The client now ranks #1 for the primary keyword and #2 for the secondary keyword. A month after the body copy optimizations went live, their conversion rate was up 36%.
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How to lose weight while breastfeeding without harm to the mother and her baby? How to do it quickly, effectively, and painlessly? Does breastfeeding help you lose weight or not? Almost all women worry about these issues in the postpartum period. Excess pounds inevitably appear during pregnancy, as they are necessary for the childbearing process. But as soon as the child is born the woman starts to worry about the weight she has gained during pregnancy. She wants to get rid of excess weight as quickly as possible and get into the clothes she was wearing before pregnancy.
The Most Common Mistakes That Prevent You from Losing Weight After Giving Birth
Inexperienced mothers, by virtue of some prejudice, refuse to give birth by themselves and breastfeed their children from the first days of their life. Or vice versa, they breastfeed for too long which can also turn into a problem of weight.
Inexperienced moms follow strict diets which change the quality and quantity of milk. Also, it deprives the child of the pleasure of getting the right food.
Inexperienced young mothers suffer from obsessive fears that they won’t be able to reach their former weight. For moms, all this is fraught with an abnormal hormonal background, and for children – with a violation of psycho-emotional development.
Every Mother Needs to Know the Following:
The extra (in your opinion) weight which the body stores during pregnancy is a natural guarantee that you will have enough internal resources and energy to breastfeed your child for a long time without much strain on your health. Therefore, after six months of breastfeeding, the body “understands” that it successfully copes with its task number 1, and begins to gradually use the internal reserves and fat reserves in order to produce breast milk. Therefore, without any diets and sports activities, you continue to breastfeed and gradually start to lose weight and lose your extra pounds at a rate of approximately 1 lb. per month.
If you want to lose weight during breastfeeding, just feed your baby and do not overeat. A strict diet, as well as intensive exercises, are very undesirable for nursing mothers. The fact is that serious physical stress and lack of nutrients can lead to a sharp decrease in the production of hormones which are responsible for lactation – prolactin and oxytocin. In addition, as a result of this lifestyle, water-salt metabolism is violated, which also has a negative effect on the production of milk. A mom can limit her menu only when the child is not less than 9 months old. The 9-month-old baby already eats complementary feeding well and can compensate a certain lack of vitamins or milk itself. But before you decide to follow any diet, think twice. Does your baby need it?
How to Lose Weight During Lactation?
A universal way to lose weight during lactation doesn’t really exist. All women are very different. But still, there are some points in respect of which doctors are unanimous.
Due to breastfeeding, a woman’s body spends more than 500 calories every day. If you consume 1500-1800 calories a day, you can lose 2 lb. per month without any special diets. Specialists also say that hips become slimmer when the child turns 3 months old. Since that time and up to 6 months, extra pounds are burned more intensively. These facts answer our question “Does breastfeeding help you lose weight?”
Studies have shown that fat cells are formed in the body not only in infancy and adolescence but also during pregnancy. They are formed during the third trimester and prevent quick loss of weight after childbirth. This explains the remaining after pregnancy several excess pounds. Thus, nature tries to protect the mother and her child from hunger.
You cannot refuse to breastfeed only in order to lose weight. Many women decide to transfer the child to artificial nutrition in order to achieve their dream body. But this is not an option. In addition, studies have shown that losing weight is much easier for a nursing mother than for a woman who gives preference to artificial feeding.
Breast milk is very useful for a baby because thanks to it the child’s immunity develops as well as the endocrine, nervous, digestive, and other systems. Currently, manufacturers of complementary feeding cannot surpass breastmilk, although they make formulas as nutritious and healthy as possible. All doctors and psychologists are unanimous in the opinion that breastfeeding not only saturates the body with nutrients and the necessary substances but also makes a huge contribution to its physical and psycho-emotional development.
Does Breastfeeding Really Help You Lose Weight?
In addition, breastfeeding helps remove not only the fat gained during pregnancy but also the extra pounds that were before the conception of the child. It is proved that the woman begins to lose weight actively in the ninth month of breastfeeding and becomes especially slim and feminine in the second and third year of feeding. During this period, subcutaneous fat on the hips, arms, chest, and abdomen vanishes. And it happens in a natural way.
Therefore, it is not at all difficult to lose weight during lactation, even without putting a lot of effort. And it is not necessary to severely limit yourself in food because it is also harmful. The child takes all the nutrients through the milk from their mother, and if you do not make up for them you can get sick or run out of breast milk. Moreover, with severe food restriction, you will have to forget about healthy hair, beautiful skin, and good complexion for a long time.
Things to Remember in the Process of Losing Weight While Breastfeeding
- Do not go on exotic and mono-diets (like eating only raw carrot or apples). You can provoke an allergy in a child or even food poisoning.
- If you’ve decided to lose weight while breastfeeding and go on a diet, drink more water! At least 8 glasses a day. The lack of water leads to an increase in the concentration of toxins and toxic substances in the body as a whole and in breast milk in particular.
- Keep in mind that diuretics usually increase lactation at first, but then the amount of milk drastically decreases. It is better not to use such methods of losing weight while breastfeeding.
- Do not eat food additives that reduce appetite. They get into the breast milk and can have an unpredictable effect on the baby’s still developing organism.
In general, it is better to walk with the stroller at a quick pace and for long distances. Wear a baby in a sling or take them more often into your arms, and the excess weight will soon disappear. You will easily get in shape after giving birth.
Does Breastfeeding Help You Lose Weight Faster? Yes, It Does!
Some young mothers lose weight after giving birth without any effort. Experts have tried to determine how this happens for a long time. In the end, it was proved that women lose weight due to breastfeeding.
Researchers have revealed several features of this process:
- Mother’s body burns more than 500 calories a day because of the production of milk
- The size of the hips reduces the most when the child is 3 months old
- Extra pounds are going away more intensively when the baby is 3-6 months old.
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The holiday season can create more headaches than it relieves for IT staffs across the country—since returning from the break, they’ve been met with an influx of additional devices on their networks from Santa Clause—from iPads to the latest smartphones.
It would be impossible to ignore the mass effect Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is having on the consumerization of IT. Many firms have already implemented BYOD security polices in the hopes of better managing personal devices and ensuring their network security isn’t put at risk. But with the recent influx of devices, now is the time for organizations to recognize the security threats and resource constraints associated with these devices when they are brought into the enterprise.
On January 31, I’ll be partnering with Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst of ZK Research, to host a webinar outlining best practices for BYOD. We’ll be addressing the evolution of Enterprise Wireless LANs and the impact of BYOD and the roles of Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Network Access Management (NAM) in managing BYOD. We’ll also specifically take a look at Apple Bonjour devices and evaluate how to effectively manage the challenges these devices pose in the Enterprise. Register today and be sure to tune in this Thursday at 11am: http://bit.ly/10PVwPz. | <urn:uuid:ca94a602-b49e-4357-98f3-fb7745730895> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.extremenetworks.com/avoid-post-holiday-networking-failure-with-key-byod-best-practices/ | 2017-11-25T07:44:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809695.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20171125071427-20171125091427-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.913663 | 282 | [
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The due date for submission of scholarship applications was extended to March 20, 2015 to insure the completion of the application process on line with the inclusion of the guidance counselor portion. The review, evaluation and selection process was completed April 2 by the Scholarship Committee consisting of: Paul Blockson, Ed & Jane Whitaker, Scott Curry, Mike Woods, MaryAnne Hedrick, Maggie Cooper and Doris Welsh.
The 17th Annual Awards Ceremony was held on May 5, 2015. A total of $68,000 was awarded to 43 recipients at that time.
The awarding of scholarships was as follows:
Dollars for Scholars Scholarships: 37 recipients – $58,500
Grunow Memorial Scholarships: 6 recipients – $9,500
Total recipients for 2015: 43 – $68,000
Since its beginning in 1999, DFS has awarded $933,700 in scholarships. In memory of Barry Grunow, $156,250 has been awarded. Dollars for Scholars continues to provide deserving students at Lake Worth High School and throughout Palm Beach County with the opportunity to further their education and reach for their dreams.
A special thanks to the members of the scholarship committee for their time, dedication and diligent efforts throughout the review and selection process. Mrs. Maggie Cooper, once again went above and beyond the call of duty by continuing to assist students even after her retirement. The invaluable support and assistance of Dr. George Lockhart and Pete DiDonato is greatly appreciated, and without whom the awards ceremony would have been difficult to make happen.
Finally, a sincere thanks to Kay and David Cantley and Mike Woods, the scholarship letters and checks were written, signed and mailed to recipients July 1, 2015. Letters were also sent to the colleges of intent identifying our scholarship recipients who would be enrolling at their institutions.
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Rural and regional Australia a focus of new Skilling Australians Fund
May 28, 2017
Rural and regional Australia are a focus of a new $1.5 billion Skilling Australians Fund announced by the Turnbull Government that will create an extra 300,000 apprentices over the next four years.
Member for Durack Melissa Price said the Skilling Australians Fund recognises how important vocational education and apprenticeships are to industries and job seekers in rural and regional areas.
“The Coalition has identified growth industries that will be prioritised under the Skilling Australians Fund and that includes agriculture and tourism, which are so important to Durack” Ms Price said.
“This reform provides new opportunities for people in Durack to take up apprenticeships and traineeships, pre-apprenticeships and higher level apprenticeships in occupations of high demand or with future growth potential,” Ms Price said
“I encourage the Western Australian Government to put forward innovative projects to ensure our local community is able to share in the opportunities that this new funding provides.
Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills, Karen Andrews, said the Skilling Australians Fund and the $60 million Industry Specialist Mentoring for Australian Apprentices scheme are key parts of the Coalition’s plan to significantly boost apprentice numbers throughout Australia.
“The Fund will create an extra 300,000 apprentices over the next four years reversing the dramatic decline that occurred under the National Partnership Agreement signed off by Labor in 2012,” Minister Andrews said.
“The biggest annual decline in apprentices in Australia occurred in Labor’s last year in office from June 2012 to June 2013 when the number collapsed from around 515,000 to 404,000, or 22 per cent,” Minister Andrews said.
Mrs Andrews said the Fund will be financed by the Government’s recent reforms requiring employers hiring temporary or permanent employer-sponsored foreign workers to pay a fee.
“We understand that overseas skilled migrants may be necessary to fill a short term need, but the Turnbull Government is ensuring that in the long term we can fulfil those skills needs with Australian workers, which is good for Australian business and good for our economy” Minister Andrews said.
Minister Andrews said the new industry specialised mentoring service continued the Government’s focus on supporting apprentices and trainees, complementing the existing services available under the Australian Apprenticeship Support Network program.
Ms Price said the service would help keep apprentices in training by providing added support in the first two years of training.
“This will improve completion rates and support the supply of skilled workers in industries undergoing structural change,” Ms Price said.
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We've been seeing a heap of hot and inticing stuff from 'Jennifer's Body' of late. We've seen sexy stills, clips and posters and this week yet another featurette has appeared online and it features the best yet! A clip of Megan Fox kissing Amanda Seyfried! That's right folks, and you can view it right below.
Both Fox and Seyfried appear in interviews in the featurette along with the writer Diablo Cody.
"Jennifer's Body is about a hot cheerleader who's body becomes reluctantly inhabited by an evil demon. The demon uses her to eat as many boys in her high school as possible. It's up to her best friend to stop her."
'Jennifer's Body will possess US theatres on September 18. Us Brits will have to wait till November 6 before we see any action so you're just gonna have to get your fill with the hot featurette above! | <urn:uuid:3edb53b0-e7f3-45e5-82db-743f9b00ea1b> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.horror-asylum.com/news/article.asp?item=7104 | 2017-11-18T08:14:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804680.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118075712-20171118095712-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.962768 | 191 | [
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Never never never give up!!
Sir Winston Churchill, one-time MP for Woodford, is providing inspiration for the riders courtesy of the lady holding the placard, which she told me she drew herself last night.
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NEW YORK, NY, June 06, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/
-- This year marks the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision that struck down all laws against interracial marriage in the United States. Loving Day
commemorates the June 12th, 1967 anniversary of this civil rights landmark. Loving Day Celebrations form the world's largest network of multiracial community events.
Virginia has become the first U.S. state to permanently recognize Loving Day
. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio officially recognized Loving Day with a proclamation in which he says, "Chirlane and I are proud to applaud the Loving Day Project...Together, we are forging a stronger, more equitable future for us all." Mayor de Blasio is "the first white politician in U.S. history elected to a major office with a black spouse by his side" (AP 2013
The 2017 Academy Awards honored Loving, a Hollywood film about the real-life in the Loving case: Richard and Mildred Loving. Ruth Negga earned an Oscar nomination
as Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Mildred Loving.
One-in-six newlyweds (17%) are married to a person of a "different race or ethnicity" according to a May 2017 Pew Research Center
analysis. This is five times more than in 1967, the year of the Loving decision. One-in-ten of all married people are in an interracial or interethnic marriage (about 11 million).
11% of Americans still do not approve of interracial marriages (Gallup 2013). 6.9% of adult Americans (22M) are multiracial
, comparable to the Asian American population at 5.6% (Pew Research 2015).
Thousands will celebrate Loving Day on or around June 12th in cities worldwide. These celebrations range from family gatherings to public festivals like the Loving Day Flagship Celebration
in New York and the Mixed Remixed
Festival in LA. Celebrations are also planned for 35 other cities including DC, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Paris, and Amsterdam. Additional events
About the Loving Day Project
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Nine years ago when Pumpkin was diagnosed with a genetic eye condition called Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis which meant that he was severely visually impaired, I remember worrying about EVERYTHING. How would he play? How would he make friends? How would he learn? All the ideas I had about raising a child changed but one thing I don’t remember considering was keeping him indoors or limiting his access to the world. Of course my mummy instinct was to wrap him up in cotton wool but I knew instinctively that in order for him to have a good and full life I needed to focus on the things that he could do rather than the things that he can’t (which, there are few of).
We were living in South Africa when Pumpkin was born and the first time I took him on a plane was when he was two months old from Johannesburg to Durban. At the time I was battling through a very difficult breast feeding experience (a whole other story!) and as my name was called out over the airport tannoy I was sitting in a toilet cubicle cradling a crying Pumpkin trying to feed him. Following the last call I dashed to the gate and with baby in arms I stepped on the silent and crowded plane, Pumpkin STILL screaming. My seat was squeezed between two rather large business men and as soon as I sat down I scrambled my bag for a clean nipple shield (I told you it was a struggle!) and preceded to feed him. Stress!
Anyway, it didn’t put me off and since then Pumpkin has become a pro traveller. Of course there are difficult moments travelling the world, with all its beauty, alongside my visually impaired child. I am often hit with a familiar stomach punch with the reminder that he can’t see a spectacular view or a pretty piece of art high up on a wall but these moments are topped by his squealing happiness when the airplane touches down on the runway or when a high speed train whizzes past pushing wind in his face.
Even when doing things here in the UK my mission is always to get him as much hands on experiences as possible. If we go to the theatre we check whether they offer a ‘touch tour’ of which the charity VocalEyes are fantastic at organising and I’ve become quite the expert at calling ahead to see how an experience can be made more immersive for Pumpkin. This is often not necessary though, most places we have visited are more than willing to help him access an experience fully. Sometimes all it takes is for a staff member to see his cane (we call it his ‘magic wand’ for this reason!) and they go out of their way to help him and if they don’t, I ask! In New York City I wanted him to have an idea of what the Statue of Liberty looked like so I took him in to a gift shop to let him feel the souvenir versions. The shop keeper saw us and he was so kind, he let Pumpkin take two home!
When we visited Philadelphia he was even lucky enough to get his hands on the historic Liberty Bell!
Where ever we go I look for sensory experiences for him that will add to his trip and I’m not afraid to break the rules from time to time to let him touch things!
Last year I contacted the London Underground and told them what a huge fan he was after which he was invited to come up on two occasions once to make announcements over the loud speaker and then again to drive in the cab of a Jubilee Train! Needless to say he will never forget those moments!
Knowing his areas of interests I am always able to cater our travels to meet his needs and believe so strongly that he needs to have as much access to the world as anyone else, regardless of his disabilities. It doesn’t stop him, so why should I?!
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We have an existing application I Xamarin Forms and we want to update the UI
...sure I have a proper sign up page that links the client straight into their dashboard view, I need some forms but given the bootstrap template file that I have shouldn't be an issue. I am Basically Wanting to create a Portal For; Land Real Estate Agents to log into which they can Upload Contact that a Builder can receive and Use to Create House and
We are using Hubspot CRM for our leads management and deals management. We want to have an easy to use web application where telecallers can add data to a form and the same is updated to the associated deal or contact for their activity done. Also give an option to thr user to create new contact/company and deal for new lead obtained via inbound or outbound calling.
We have an application developed at 90% . I am looking for a developer able to finalize it, test it and help me to deploy it on stores.
...autofill forms on a different websites (includes drop down selections, radio buttons & text) which i need filled at the click of a button. Maybe 5 different templates need to be filled (eventually would need to add more templates to the list if initial project is successful) This job might lead to additional support/work in the future too. Forms keep
Looking for a web app developer. Primarily functionality is to add data and should be hosted on AWS. This should also allow to create ne...app developer. Primarily functionality is to add data and should be hosted on AWS. This should also allow to create new User id's/profile and option to pick and choose what forms to display based on their interest.
just a simple angular2 reactive form with a text field and dropdown (from separate entity in database) call webapi using [url removed, login to view] core 2.0 and EF core 2.0 migration.
I need your help on a project to digitize a foundry's machine shop. I would like their digital forms and dashboard to be developed for Windows using PHP CodeIgnitor. The corresponding dashboard should show machining performance as well as employee performance, with all data visualised onto single-page screens.
I need to fix some issues with my xamarin forms app. Android - keyboard leaves white space after the keyboard closes Windows UWP - app was rejected because - the app has login information without Cryptography Add a native help page.
IDEA: I want to develop a EFLYER subscription platform for the real estate agent to use in designing flyers, then it needs to be able to super launch his/her new property listing immediately across all syndicated real estate sites via API, social media sites and announce to fellow realtors via email/social media the new listing. COMPENSATION: fixed
I need to complete the fin...the final steps in a website project for real estate commercial The website is in Arabic It needs experience in Python Django-cms and bootstrap The main jobs: - Add advanced search functionality - Finalize the appearance/design (Template is provided) - Display properties in a beautiful way - Add some forms to pages
I need someone to help me set up a system of Macros to fill out Adobe forms from another file. I use a Macintosh Laptop with Office.
I need xamarin forms designer This is the mockup [url removed, login to view]!Ah0HYd2ZHkthgj5ZghVk9JGy8jLK please check and let me know only if you can do this Only need for designer have experience about [url removed, login to view] When you bid on my project please let me know duration and price
I want modify my xamarin app design This is the mockup [url removed, login to view]!Ah0HYd2ZHkthgj5ZghVk9JGy8jLK please check and let me know only if you can do this When you bid on my project plesase let me know duration and price
I am creating a program in Windows Forms, and I need to get data from a BLE capable Arduino 101. I am able to get the Arduino to have the data available to be read from a computer, but I have extremely little knowledge with C#, which is what I'm using for the functionality in my Windows Forms application. What I need is someone to write some code
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Leisurescape Pools & Spas – “World-Leading Spas & Swim Spas”
Leisurescape Pools & Spas is an Australian family-owned & operated business based in Geelong, with showrooms in Victoria, South Australia & New South Wales.
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All Leisurescape Pools & Spas ranges have a Balboa controller (the best in the world), power-saving heat mode, are gas or heat pump ready, have eight-layer thermal insulation, & most importantly, a super high-density insulation cover to keep the heat in the water giving you a huge head start on keeping running costs to a minimum. Then, add in an Ecotech Heat Pump which will keep your water at desired temperature, ready & waiting for you to enjoy your Spa, and save you up to 75% on heating costs.
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That's right, today, in Massachusetts, the famous co-inventor of Morse Code was born.
Hams either loved the Code or hated it. There's two versions of Code. The American Morse Code is different from the International Morse Code. The latter is the Code what ham radio operators use.
What are you doing to celebrate the birth of the man who helped invent the Code? Nothing? Well, it's Babe Ruth Day today then. | <urn:uuid:3a729bb6-6f67-4139-88de-4dd7bbf48bd1> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://arrlok.blogspot.com/2014/04/happy-birthday-samuel-morse-arrl.html | 2017-11-20T17:08:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806086.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120164823-20171120184823-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.943619 | 93 | [
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Brie Bella Tweeted the following after the angle at WWE Payback where she "quit" the company:
— The Bella Twins (@nicoleandbri) June 2, 2014
The storyline is that Brie "quit" in order to prevent Daniel Bryan from having to surrender the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. WWE is clearly delaying any plan there was to strip Bryan of the title because of his neck injury with the hope he'll be back sooner than later. I was told last week that Bryan would only drop the title if he was going to be out longer than another month. Expect a followup on Raw.
— Richard Gray (@wnwdotcom) June 2, 2014 | <urn:uuid:51d0fc24-937a-47bd-8f68-75b789a86ef7> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.wrestlingnewsworld.com/brie-bella-comments-daniel-bryan-angle-latest-status/ | 2017-11-20T17:05:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806086.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120164823-20171120184823-00279.warc.gz | en | 0.969364 | 140 | [
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I have been in some awkward positions like this. In all honesty, my game is so weak. I get annoyed when others feel threatened by me.
Someone asked me today. What kind of guy do I like. Older. Younger?
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An October 2014 surveillance video (below) has surfaced that shows Los Angeles Police Officer Richard Garcia punching, kicking and kneeing a black suspect, Clinton Alford Jr., who was being held on the ground by two other cops.
Alford was chased by the other officers who suspected him of being part of a robbery, according to the Los Angeles Times. He was never charged in connection to the robbery.
After the two officers catch Alford, he flips over on his stomach, and starts to move his arms behind his back as the cops put handcuffs on him.
Suddenly, Garcia comes running up, and starts kicking and beating Alford.
Garcia and an unidentified officer told LAPD investigators that Alford resisted arrest while on the ground.
But Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck noted in his report that Garcia’s behavior was not reasonable “given Alford’s limited and unapparent resistance."
In the video, Garcia drives his knee into Alford's back, and drives another knee into Alford's neck for some time, for about two minutes, while other officers stand around.
When a second police car pulls up, Garcia and another officer suddenly decide to pick Alford off the street and drag him to Garcia's squad car.
In October, several unidentified officers told the Los Angeles Times that Alford had surrendered and was not resisting arrest.
Alford, who was booked on suspicion of drug possession and resisting arrest, and pleaded not guilty, told the Los Angeles Times at the time: "I was just praying that they wouldn’t kill me. I just closed my eyes and tried to hold on."
Garcia pleaded guilty to assault under color of authority in a plea deal in May 2016 that kept him out of prison.
The Los Angeles Times requested a copy of the video under the California Public Records Act, but the LAPD turned it down. The LAPD said the video was an investigative record that was exempt from public disclosure, but a judge ruled against the department.
The video never belonged to the LAPD, but was rather surveillance video from a security camera at a nearby factory building.
Citlali Alvarado, a worker in the factory, recalled her shock while watching the incident live on a security monitor.
"I didn’t think it was a proper action," Alvarado stated. "The victim was already held down."
Alvarado said some police officers came in the building, asked if there were any cameras and had Alvarado show them the video, which she said they viewed; two laughed.
According to Alvarado, Garcia then came in and recorded the video with his cellphone.
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I had a request to make a Dachshund at a fair I was at by two darling little children named Melvin (Boy) and Melanie (Girl),
so to honor those two, I named my pups after them.
Everyone needs a loyal friend, and his name is Mel the Dachshund.
These puppies are so small that you can bring them anywhere you go.
Dachshunds will make loving Micro pets to stand guard while you do your homework, go out shopping or while you sleep.
Perfect for any dollhouse or miniature animal collection, and is intended for adult collectors only.
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Lately some of us at Mozilla Labs have been experimenting with graphical keyboard user interfaces in Firefox. Our current work-in-progress is something that we’re calling Ubiquity for the time being, though the name is by no means set in stone.
This project is heavily informed by Enso, a software product developed by me and my colleagues at Humanized from 2005-07. Aside from the benefits outlined in Alex Faaborg’s blog post entitled The Graphical Keyboard User Interface, this experiment is intended to solve few other problems, one of which I’ll address in this post.
Web applications, much the same as desktop applications, are a bit like isolated cities: it’s difficult for an end-user to arbitrarily share data and functionality between them. This is alleviated to some extent by creations like Firefox Add-ons that add toolbars or sidebars to Firefox’s UI, Bookmarklets, and Greasemonkey, but while all of these solutions are powerful, each comes with its own set of problems. The buttons and bars of many Firefox add-ons don’t scale well because of the valuable screen real-estate they consume; Bookmarklets are restricted in scope because they only have the access privileges of the website they’re running on; and Greasemonkey doesn’t prescribe any kind of interaction model, which makes it difficult to reuse the functionality of a script in a context other than the ones it was expressly designed for.
Our new project attempts to alleviate all of these problems by allowing end-users to apply textual commands, or verbs, to whatever they’re looking at. For instance, let’s assume that I’ve found a typo on a friend’s blog, and I want to let him know about it. I can first select the typo on the page by dragging my mouse over it:
Then, I can activate what we’re calling the “command entry mode”. At the moment, this is done via a hotkey that displays a popup window, though this particular interface is only temporary (more on that later):
Now I type “highlight”, because that’s what I want to do to the typo, to emphasize the location of the typo to my friend:
I then press enter, which highlights the text, like so:
Now I’d like to email part of the sentence containing the highlighted typo to my friend, so that he has some context for where the typo is located. I do this by highlighting part of the sentence, and issuing the “email” command. This causes Firefox to switch to my Gmail tab and compose an email for me with some pre-filled content:
I can now modify the email as necessary to tell my friend about his typo, and then send it.
Our current code is capable of performing this workflow, though Gmail is the only supported mail application at the moment. The hotkey interface is also something of a placeholder, because it was the most expedient to implement while making the project dogfoodable. Ultimately, it would be ideal for verbs to be exposed to end-users through interfaces that already exist in Firefox, such as the AwesomeBar or contextual menus.
Exactly what the user needs to type in order to invoke a command is also under contention, and Jono has been doing some really interesting work on this front. There’s a number of additional aspects of the experiment that I’d like to write about, so keep reading Toolness for more updates.
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San Diego Natural History Museum
- I am a top administrator in the Patron's Edge ticketing database (PE). I am responsible for creating all programs, events, price lists, coupons, and users. I pull GL strings and Project Codes from Financial Edge (FE). I sell memberships, ticketed events, create group reservations, and alert the Database Manager with data that needs clean up (when it has to be handled in Raiser's Edge (RE). I am the primary contact to TopTix (the support company) when there are problems or difficulties with PE for any user that cannot be corrected internally.
- I submit daily sales reports and run weekly reports for school group reservations and public program sales. I run reports and provide the monthly statistics for the Visitor Services and Education departments(many of these reports are cumulative to provide year-end statistics as well). I also submit these figures to Development for grants, proposals, annual reports, and follow-up stewardship and to the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership and San Diego Tourism Authority.
- I process all school group reservations and all program paperwork(such as youth camp emergency contact forms)-maintaining positive, professional, and continuous relationships with these guests and members.
- As a supervisor, I oversee Customer Service Associates who handle the Customer Service phone line and email and assist with sales and reservations as needed. I also provide support to front-line staff as needed(writing the manuals and providing PE training to new employees, assisting with sales or calls, and managing the floor).
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Incorporating and tracking performance using Lean metrics doesn’t make a company Lean any more than tracking weight puts you on a diet. Measurements are like decisions, nothing changes unless actions are taken.
How does this apply to OEE? How does OEE apply to LEAN? As we’ve mentioned in previous posts, many companies invest a significant amount of time, money, and effort to develop exorbitant OEE data collection systems. Data collection and analysis methods are in place, improvement / action plans are developed and executed, and the measurement cycle continues.
To some, this process may appear to be correct. More formally, a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) or Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process improvement methodology may be used. So what is wrong with this picture?
OEE Improvements are RELATIVE
OEE does not distinguish between poorly designed and well designed processes. A poorly designed process may have significant flow constraints and excessive labour but still yield a high OEE index. The reason for this is simple, the base line or process standards are based on the current known process. Standard cycle times and quality expectations are based on the current “achievable” performance standards that the process can provide.
Changes to the current process, rates, and quality levels will be reflected in the OEE index. However, LEAN is not necessarily concerned with effective asset utilization. The focus of LEAN is to increase or optimize the value added to the product or service being provided while reducing the time required to achieve it.
Implementing OEE is not LEAN
Racing cars and regular street cars may each perform at 100% of their optimum performance levels but clearly they could not compete in a race against each other. From a LEAN perspective, the racing car will certainly out-perform a regular street car in a head-t0-head speed contest.
Similarly, OEE can provide insight into the performance of the current process, however, it does not provide an indication of how LEAN the process actually is. A process that is plagued with multiple stations and inherent Work In Progress inventory will never compete against a properly balanced single piece flow process.
The OEE index for any group of processes may be above 85% as defined by design, it doesn’t mean they are equally lean. Lean should aspire us to achieve a 100% value added process, safely producing the highest quality product in the shortest amount of time. Although this could never be achieved in the today’s manufacturing environment, VALUE STREAM mapping is the technique used to evaluate our current capabilities in this regard and to determine what a lean future state process could achieve.
So why measure OEE?
OEE measures how effectively an asset or group of assets is being utilized as defined or described by the current standards and process constraints. Of course, we want to make sure that we are utilizing our assets effectively. The message here is simple. Don’t confuse effectiveness with efficiency – they are not the same.
Even efficiency can mean different things to different people. As we’ve mentioned in previous posts, understand WHAT you are measuring and WHY. Metrics don’t make a company LEAN although many can help you achieve increasing levels of LEAN.
OEE is an excellent tool to help manage and improve our processes and even more so when the process is optimized using LEAN principles.
The next time someone says they are going LEAN, listen closely. Usually the statement is met with the typical, “We did 5S and we’re working to improve our OEE.” The real LEAN practitioner may just share the plan to reduce the cash to cash time and increase or improve the percentage of Value Added activity.
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Old thoughts (26 October 2008):
A McCain defeat is likely to be paired with significant defeats downstream from the Presidential race. This would portend a period of bloodletting within the Republican Party and among conservatives more generally. Since Republican Party partisans have been prone to high levels of symbolic violence directed at Democrats (and supporters of Democrats), this propensity to demonize the Other will likely be turned inward. This seems to have begun already (see the leaks coming from the McCain and Palin camps). On a more general level, it seems that an open war is breaking out between evangelicals and nativists, who have been the shock troops of Republican success since 1980, and the conservative “intelligentsia” (op-ed writers and professional political strategists) over both the content and tenor of Republican/Conservative politics. Not only may evangelicals be closed out of power in the Congress and Executive branch, but they have not yet reaped any concrete benefits of 28 years of loyalty to the Republican brand: Roe v. Wade hasn’t been overturned, no “right to life” amendment has been ratified, and the latest threat to humankind, “gay marriage,” has become more acceptable to the public. Nativists are also unhappy as the issue of “illegals” has not been a campaign theme for McCain (who once upon a time championed a form of immigration reform that boiled the blood of the vigilantes patrolling America’s southern border). The conservative intelligentsia is weary of the narrow-mindedness and anti-intelletualism of the Republican Party base: it realizes that Republicans will become a permanent minority party if they continue to cater to the exclusionary preferences of this base. This split could materialize in struggles over the soul of the party waged by Huckabee and Palin (on the one side), and Romney, Jindal, and Ridge (on the other side). Forward thinking Republicans will be more welcoming to people like Bloomberg and Weld as candidates and policy-makers; backward looking Republicans will continue to take marching orders from Limbaugh, Hannity, and the God Squad (Dobson and Perkins).
Enter the Tea Party in 2009.
New thoughts on the controversy over the label “progressive” and the Clinton and Sanders campaigns:
An analogous situation arose in 2008. Republicans questioned Mr Obama’s “character” by raising his “association” with Bill Ayers (“paling around with terrorists”) and his membership in the church of the firebrand Reverend Wright. In the end, the strategy of character assassination failed. In the present circumstances, Mr Sanders would do better to stick to substance (differences in policy).
The search for ideological purity is why the Republicans are a risible circus today. Mr Sanders should be wary of taking the Democratic Party (of which he’s never been a member) down this road to political perdition. It will only end in tears.
Numerous bankruptcies and numerous ex-wives: this makes one a leading Republican candidate for President.
As for Mr Trump’s attacks on Mssrs McCain and Perry: it’s basically one clown calling the other clowns to order.
I’m surprised Mr McCain hasn’t called for the bombing of Trump Tower.
Trump will turn Karl Rove into a whirling dervish given how much spinning the latter will have to do.
American popular culture has always been a counterfeit form.
Royals are more attractive today than they were in prior centuries.
The archbishop of Dublin is saying the Church must do a better job of indoctrinating children. This is an example of how medieval monotheism loses the plot in the modern world.
In breaking news, John McCain is angry. Again.
Politics isn’t rocket science. It’s easy to spot a political buffoon.
As news meanders across the political media universe that Jeb Bush’s email dump revealed sensitive personal information about 12,000 people, raising the spectre of another incompetent Bush in the White House, one wonders how he would be able to navigate a successful primary run for the Republican nomination. The Republican Party is not a single entity but rather an unappetizing ragout of functionally incompatible factions:
1. A tiny rump of reasonably rational Republicans, the so-called Establishment which caters to Wall Street and maintains a respectable 10 handicap.
2. A Tea Party faction that is the driving force in Republican political psychology. The Tea Party has several wings:
(a) a wacky libertarian wing (e.g., Rand Paul) comprised of Isolationists, Anti-Vaxxers, the Gun Lobby, and Gold Bugs.
(b) a social conservative, religious wing (Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin) that is
obsessed about addicted to talking about gay sex.
(c) a bandit wing (e.g., Cliven Bundy, paranoid militias and survivalists living in fortified bunkers, White Supremacists in Idaho) that is ready to engage in the violent overthrow of the US government.
(d) a classic poujadist wing comprised of people who want free services from government but don’t want to pay taxes.
3. A “Bomb Iran” caucus (e.g., John McCain and Lindsay Graham), which sometimes overlaps with the “Bomb Moscow, But Make Putin Our Presidential Nominee First” caucus (e.g., John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Franklin Graham, Steven Seagal, etc.), and the “Bomb Everyone We Dislike to Show We’re Manly Men” caucus (e.g., John McCain and Lindsay Graham).
2016 may not be the year for another RINO, which is the tag of death for a moderate Republican like Mr Bush.
Wake me when Shadow President McCain has volunteered to fly sorties over Moscow.
No matter what one sees on Portlandia: Buy and consume whatever you desire.
What’s wrong with journalism today? Take the following example. The New York Times‘ Ginia Bellafante wrote an article on Mayor de Blasio’s ten day vacation to Italy. She writes:
Mayor Bill de Blasio has been unable to avoid criticism about his plans to travel to Italy with his family for nearly 10 days so early in his tenure …
Unfortunately, the article cites only one critic of the mayor’s trip, Rudy Giuliani, whose political conflict of interest remains unstated. But the phrase “Many people quickly took issue with the vacation” appears as a stand in for evidence of (missing) masses of outraged citizens. (Another variant of this rhetorical tactic is the interrogator’s question prefaced by “Some say …”, which should always be translated as “I say …”). Bellafante’s article is organized around a pseudo-controversy driven by the journalist’s own professional imaginary. The pseudo-controversy is one of journalism’s go-to tricks. I wonder if it is taught at journalism schools.
If Spain wants to save its Monarchy, it should place images of the new Queen front and center (see England).
Pope Francis says cats are nice, but children are better and that childless couples will live out their final years lonely and bitter.
I think the pope is admitting that he’s lonely and bitter in his old age.
The Roman Church could follow the model of St Francis and give its billions in wealth to the poor in Africa and around the world.
I rather like the meme “John McCain was swapped.”
The Sin City sequel poster is a distraction from Benghazi.
Yoko Ono is the most talented Beatle.
On the talk show Generations Radio, Kevin Swanson and his co-host, Steve Vaughn, took Disney to task for “leading the charge” in promoting a “pro-homosexual” agenda in “Frozen.”
Christian wingnuts are amusing. The rest of us are immune to their foolish film criticism.
Facebook surveillance is a threat to the internet.
Senator McCain has always sought to escalate US military involvement in every imaginable international conflict, even those in which the US has no immediate strategic interest. He’s no longer credible as a political pundit.
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It is Dog Show time again! Westminster Kennel Club is presenting their annual dog show. The winners of the Hound, Toy, Non-Sporting and Herding groups were chosen on Monday, but even we do not love the dog show enough to dedicate six hours of our week to it, so we are only recapping the final night of the show: Sporting Dogs,Working Dogs,Terrier Group and Best in Show.
First up, the pointers. Ohh! Bias! If a pointer is the logo of the club, why don’t they win more often? The WKC has lost its way, there’s only been 3 pointers that won Best in Show. Five if you count German Pointers, which I don’t, just ’cause. This non-scandal scandal will surely rip the Club apart. Ahem. It has come to my attention that I may be 100-ish years too late to rile people up about this.
Did you know that the German short-haired pointer is an all-purpose gun dog?
I have to assume this is some sort of hunting reference that I don’t get. Also, gun dog will leap at your face if you have treats! I was unable to find video of this adorable moment, but it was super cute. Aren’t you always amazed that behaving well isn’t part of the criteria for dog show success? These dogs are allowed to show more personality than the Miss Universe contestants. I don’t know if I should applaud the WKC for that, or chastise Miss Universe. I’m so torn.
Anywho, do you think the haircuts on the cocker spaniels look like little dresses when they are running, or is that just me? I went looking for a video of this effect, but instead found a far more awesome photo of a dog in curlers from the good people of Madison Square Gardens:
It’s fine, I know you’re just here to look at pictures of dogs, I’m under no delusions about this and fully intend to include as many pictures of dogs as possible.
Moving on, the Clumber Spaniel seems like a misfit in the sporting category. They seem like they are not super sporty. In fact, they seem kind of like they’d hang out on the couch all day.
But, we can not ponder this conundrum about what it means to be a “sporty” dog any further, the winner has already been announced. Keep up, people, geesh. It’s the English Springer Spaniel, Liz, who has a much longer name that involves a very cute Elizabeth Taylor’ White Diamonds reference.
Coming back from commercial, we’re pretty sure that announcer just called the entire Working Group fat. “Here come the big dogs” is totally a euphemism. Oh wait, it’s not! Who knew that small bears were part of the Working Group at Westminster? They kept referring to this dog as a “Russian Terrier” but we’re pretty sure they’ve been punked.
Not to mention: the Hooch dog from Turner and Hooch was an actual breed! Shocking! We know, we know – everyone who knows anything about dog breeding already knew this. But we prefer to come at the subject from a position of ignorance. It makes our responses so much more organic. Apparently, Hooch was a Dogue de Bordeaux. Embarrassingly enough for multiple French teachers, in my head that translates to “dog of the wine area”. I refuse to use the google to see if it is correct, because if it weren’t I would still want to think it was.
The Giant Mop Dog is apparently considered the King of the Hungarian Livestock Guard Dogs. It is more appropriately called a Komondor, although in this particular case, the pup’s name is GCH Quintessential Chauncey. I would call him Quint for short, but they call him Chauncey. Dog people are weird.
Also, Giant Mop Dog is so awesome that I went on Doggie Stats and found you some extra pictures. You’re welcome.
Also, here’s Chauncey getting all dolled up for the show:
Adele the Kuvasz is apparently “similar” to the Komondor except for the coat… umm, well, that would mean they are nothing at all alike. See for yourself.
The Portuguese Water Dog’s bottom is showing. What a haircut.
There is much speculation that Portuguese Water Dog will indeed win the Working Dog group: his name is Matisse, and he’s won 238 best in shows, but after the Poodle scandal of yore, I’m pretty sure that televised dog shows are biased against dogs with insane haircuts these days. Mostly because it makes the entire “sport” look like Christopher Guest’s Best In Show was an actual documentary. Spoiler alert, while Matisse did win his group against all odds, he did not become ruler of all dogs in America.
Scandal! I has some. So, as a result of my insane diatribe against nepotism at the AKC back in November, I think it’s possible that the Samoyed group was rigged. Or perhaps the announcers were confused. Whichever is less likely to get us sued for libel. Also, it could be my own complete ignorance of dog shows. Six of one, amiright? Anywho, Play it Again Ham, also known as Bogey, was king of the Working Group at the AKC, but the announcers said his registered name was “Humphrey Bogart”. Consider this your sternly worded letter, announcers!
Oh no! While we were distracted with nepotism and bias, the threat to three dimensional life everywhere, the Bedlington Terrier, made it through to the Terrier Group. Be afraid, people be very afraid. Where did you lose your 3rd dimension Bedlington Terrier? Are you contagious? We are not ready for flat life! Panic at the Dog Show, PANIC!
It took me the rest of the terrier group to settle down after that threat to international security, but I looked on the internet and I’m pretty sure Good Time Charlie, the Skye Terrier won. It’s almost like they photoshopped that dog’s spine it’s so damn straight.
Now the moment we’ve all been waiting for: Best in Show!
So, let’s quickly check in with last night’s winners:
In the Non-Sporting group: the Standard Poodle, Flame. It is no wonder Flame is not sporty – it’s like she’s wearing an evening gown.
Winner of the Herding Group: a giant freakin’ teddy bear. ZOMG, I just want to cuddle that dog right now.
Also, unrelated, I found a picture of all the Old English Sheepdogs that you must see because your heart will explode with happy feelings.
The Toy Group: Patty Hearst’s Shih Tzu, Rocket. Whatever, it’s not just hers, there are like three owners of the tiny puppy. But we all know it brings a bit of edge to the story if you randomly name drop.
Admit it: You totally want the Best in Show round to begin by poking at the judges and then lining them up in order the same way they do with the dogs just for shits and giggles. Sadly it does not work like that. Instead, the judges basically just run the dogs around in circles while the crowd desperately tries to influence the judging by extra hard clapping. It gets super rowdy up in there.
There is tension in the air. SO MUCH TENSION. Dogs are pulled out of order, reordered, and run in circles. Then, finally, it happens: the Best in Show is chosen and we can all get on with our lives.
The winner is the beagle! Miss P — call name “Peyton,” official champion’s name “Tashtins Lookin for Trouble” We are all very excited about this because it is only the second time a Beagle has won Westminster. And, beagles look like dogs – as opposed to the vacuum faced wire haired jerk dog that won last year.1
Anywho, Westminster is over for yet another year. The ups, the downs, the highs, the lows – they must all wait until November for the AKC Dog Show. However, if you feel the need to atone for watching 3 hours of dogs in fancy haircuts, we recommend donating to your local animal shelter. Or, if you dont’ want to google it, just donate to our local animal shelter.
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October 28, 2005
new blogs, yum!
Since I spend approximately an eighth of my time eating each day, I've decided to start two new restaurant review blogs:
Lactose Free Nashville
reviews restaurants and their friendliness to the Lactose Free set
Joe, Party of Six
reviews restaurants and their friendliness to larger groups dining... at lunch... every other Tuesday
I hope that
else finds one or both of these halfway useful. They'll be updated as we eat. Top-o-the-page tags will be added when I get creative and when I figure out where they'll fit.
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‘Not If I See You First’ is bright, beautiful, and, if you look closely, you’ll find the title written in brail. In honour of how utterly lovely this book looks on our book shelf, we thought we’d have an indulgent scroll through Instagram. Check out some of our favourite snaps of this fantastic read:
While I was on my “bookstagram hiatus”, I read and finished an ARC of Eric Lindstrom’s Not If I See You First. It’s a really cute YA debut about a blind girl – Parker Grant – and how she copes after the sudden loss of her dad. I’ll post a synopsis in the comments for anyone interested! What I liked most about this book was Parker. She was sassy & sarcastic, almost to the point of being selfish, but as the book progressed she really developed as a character. I’ve never read a book featuring a blind protagonist before, and it was so inspiring to see her tackle teenage life in a positive manner (without dwelling on or making a fuss about being visually impaired). I will admit that I got about 200+ pages into the book before realising that I was enjoying it 😂 I was on the fence about it for a long time; I am so glad I stuck with it though as it gave me those ‘warm vibes’ at the end. Overall, I’d give it 4/5??.
Staff pick! Meet Parker. Snarky, tough, independent, great friend and track star to be. And, oh yeah. She’s blind. Meg loved this great YA read about growing up and learning to experience things from another point of view. #notifiseeyoufirst #ericlindstrom #yalit #staffpick A photo posted by Hill of Content Bookshop (@hillofcontent) on
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7:15am. The wind howls. The rain pours down. I wake to the sound of a ringing phone.
That’s my overly dramatic way of saying that I got a casual shift today. Woohoo!
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BUT, I've been struggling all day. I've got designer's block ... what to do, what to do?
But I need to clear my head, so out for a walk on this beautiful fall day. I need to buy a few ingredients anyway.
So this is what I baked.
Back home I brought out of the fridge the "ready to go" bread dough I usually have in there. Pulled off a chunk, formed it into a ball and set it on a piece of parchment to start rising.
More baking for dinner. I pulled out more of that bread dough from the fridge. I needed pizza.
When the granola was done, I put my cast iron dutch oven in my oven to heat up. I like to bake my bread in it. It's the easiest way to get a good crust because it makes a lot of steam inside the covered pot.
While the bread was baking I rolled out my pizza dough (wish I knew how to flip it up in the air ... ) and spread on the tomato sauce and sautéed vegetables. Cut some Canadian bacon into tiny wedges ... put that on top, too.
Then made a couple Mahattans for my husband and me.
Bread out ... Pizza in. After 10 minutes of baking then it gets the fresh mozzarella cheese that was already thinly sliced and a lot of fresh oregano from my garden. Back in the oven until the cheese was just bubbling.
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Much has been made recently of Los Angeles’s transformation to a transit- friendly city. A speaker at this spring’s Transit & Cities conference at UC Berkeley, hosted by the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, lamented the increasingly prohibitive housing prices in Downtown LA, even as there is demand for commuters to live closer to work and spend less time in their cars. Yet the traditional view of transit riders of “necessity” versus “choice” pits low-income bus riders against more affluent rail riders and raises questions about the much higher cost per rider of rail. What can planning scholars and practitioners do to inform and enlighten the political process around rail and bus development? What are the metrics by which we should evaluate investment in different forms of transit infrastructure before and after it is built? What should be the relationship between equity, cost, and political feasibility? The BPJ editors posed these questions to Professor Martin Wachs of UCLA and Professor Ethan Elkind of UC Berkeley after their recent IURD Transit & Cities lecture on Elkind’s 2014 book, Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City (UC Press). The talk focused on the history of rail politics in LA and served as a useful springboard for further discussion in this journal on the role of planners today in promoting equitable mobility in cities.
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You're kidding right? That would carry the biggest possible fine and/or being kicked out of the World Cup, racism and willfuly defying pre-determined rules are one thing but that's just a step too far...
And given that the English/Scottish FAs knew they would be fined anyway, they should have taken the opportunity to put sponsors' logos all over the pitch to recoup any losses. In for a penny...
On the homophobic chanting subject, it's difficult to know what the Chilean FA is expected to do to address homophobia in a whole country (or continent), even if they successfully made the stadium homophobia-free, somehow. I wonder how FIFA intends to fine its member countries in which homosexuality is illegal.
In all seriousness though, if that pitch sponsor thing happened I could see FIFA turning the tables and fining The FA to the tune of CHF(amount of revenue generated)+1, like a tennis match of pettiness.
For the homophobic chanting, I agree that it's difficult to associate a nation's FA with a nation's general attitude, but a fine of some kind is nessecary to hopefully be a deterrent that influences positive change in that country's society. There's even been a number of British commenters online regarding the poppy case claiming that FIFA don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to 'political messages' because they have those official campaigns for anti-racism and peace... should say a lot about some people really
All in all this mess has just played out pretty close to my earlier assumptions, FIFA have been a little ridiculous in going back on their judgement of 2011 (and for including 'fans wearing poppies' in their charge list against Wales), but the Home Nations have been more ridiculous, England and Scotland wearing the poppy armbands wasn't harming anyone in that stadium but the rule is there to prevent a more flammable situation from appearing in future, and instead went with a level of blind defiance that would be scary if it was over a more important issue
. Wales and Northern Ireland obeyed the rules to a point, but still went with an all-out military-based pre-match show that displayed the symbol more than enough to make up for a lack of it on biceps.
I'm just kind of lost with how knee-jerk this whole thing was, I was under the impression the Remembrance Day is supposed to be a more quiet reflective affair, the minute's silence and black armbands should make that point, possibly a wreath and The Last March
as well. Instead you get all that, plus kit poppies, plus poppy tifos and tacky 3D screensavers on the big screen
. Just becomes an excercise in who can be the best at remembering, but the more they do it the worse they seem to get. Also Cookie Monster.
For fining England more than Chile, I can understand to a point based on what happened there - even if they don't do enough to combat homophobia (genuinely don't know), I doubt the Chilean FA were directly responsible for fans in the stadium chanting, and I doubt even more that it was some kind of pre-planned defiant act, letting the debate with FIFA become a major talking point for powerful people looking to score some cheap popularity points.
Of course the homophobic chants are the worse crime on paper (for those 'gay is illegal' countries they seem to have a stance of it not being their business unless something happens in the stadium), but maybe it's because of that reason, with the poppies kicking up such a massive artificial outrage, that it feels like money wasted on the part of the Home Nations (more than it already was, anyway). That was moronic individuals in a position of power knowingly breaking the rules (and as a bonus letting a misinformed anti-FIFA frenzy bubble up in the process) rather than moronic individuals in a large crowd that the FA have limited control over. Chile just have to pay whatever fines come their way and do what they can to help tackle the root of the problem... | <urn:uuid:23ef33b4-074c-4eee-9584-086d1314262d> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/roonbafr/red-black-flower-outrage-t3067.html?sid=d34903deee120c34b0f7bfe2116b378e | 2017-11-22T09:30:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806543.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122084446-20171122104446-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.972657 | 842 | [
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One of the crucial (yet often under-acknowledged) aspects of digital transformation is nurturing and enabling the organisational culture that can support greater agility. Teams working in agile ways but surrounded by the wrong kind of culture will encounter the kind of friction that can be potentially disastrous to progress.
One of the best ways of thinking about organisational culture comes from Edgar Schein (author of Organizational Culture and Leadership and a former professor at MIT Sloan School of Management). Company culture might be defined in terms of the pattern of beliefs and behaviours that grows up around how the business has overcome challenges and prospered. Schein describes it as:
“a pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems.”
And he defines three key ways in which culture manifests within organisations: observable artifacts, espoused values, and basic underlying assumptions.
Artifacts and behaviours: visible behaviours and elements in an organisation that might reveal what the company demonstrates as important, but might also be recognised by people who are not part of the culture. This might include physical surroundings and technologies but also language, jargon, stories, myths and practices. This might be thought of as the surface elements.
Espoused values: qualities and rules of behaviour that are advocated by a company’s leadership and management, and show how the organisation might represent itself. This might include published things such as a code of conduct, public statements or specific events and material.
Basic assumptions: less tangible, but powerful, underlying determinants of an organization’s attitudes, thought processes, and actions. These might include ingrained values and assumptions that are unquestioned, taken for granted, largely invisible and therefore hard to recognise from within.
A matrix like the Competing Values Framework enables us to map organisational culture on a 2 x 2 with axes expressing values that are widely different: the vertical axis pits flexibility and discretion against stability and control; the horizontal axis has internal focus and integration set against external focus and differentiation. In the book we discuss the kinds of cultures that enable greater agility as being rooted in people focused attributes such as autonomy, empowerment, collaboration – all qualities that sit more comfortably in the upper half of this matrix, and the opposite of those cultures that are more rooted in control, consistency, uniformity and competition. That’s not to say that agile teams can’t operate in more rigid and controlling cultures, but there is likely to be conflict that we need to be aware of and protect against.
Given the importance of the people side of digital transformation, and of employee experience as well as customer experience as a driver for change, then culture becomes critical. If the desire is to promote a culture that is more suited to agile attributes and working, then we need to think about this in three dimensions not one. Culture is far more than the visible signals (posters, words on walls, colourful cushions and ping pong tables) that some seem to think it is. Whilst artifacts and behaviours might be thought of as more obvious, surface elements, it is the basic assumptions that are deeply embedded, often poorly recognised, and which are therefore powerful drivers of behaviour.
Recognising what these are is an important first step in addressing behaviour change (there’s value here in an outside-in perspective, for example from new employees). Then we need to focus how to unlearn existing behaviours in order to relearn new ones, something we describe in the book in terms of understanding, breaking and creating organisational habits. Because that what they are – customs, practices, routines that are automatic, unquestioned. Habits support assumptions and behaviours. Assumptions and behaviours can either block change from happening at all, or they can be powerful enablers for transformation.
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Thank you all for your kind comments, it is such a pleasure to read you!
Vicki, a compliment from you is always welcome! Somehow, you are part of this quilt: I've got a lot of inspiration from visiting your blog, and the links you share with us.
Merci Laurence et Solange. C'était un plaisir d'assembler ce quilt, les couleurs gagnaient en intensité au fil du montage. Devant ou au dos, d'ailleurs.
Sarah, thank you again for your help!
Lisa, those fabrics are so versatile! And flowers are always a hit.
Kerri, you are right, this season is beautiful and very enjoyable. Sorry that you have had your first frost. It is not yet here, but it could change all of sudden...
Thank you Priscilla, Neki and Rosemary!
PS: while I'm trying to write, there is a cat between me and the computer, trying to drink from my glass. Which is totally impossible due to the size of the glass and my disapproval, but still...
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Wow! I didn't even realize just how bad my garden looked until I saw this photo. Funny how you just get used to ugliness when you ignore it.
Last year I sort of gave up on my garden but this year I was determined to put an end to the ugliness. First thing to go was all the wooden borders on the garden beds. If any of you are thinking about making raised beds, I strongly urge you to stay away from wood. Over time the wood just rots and you end up with a pile like this:
And you'll spend half a season replacing it all again. Most of this wood has been here since before I bought the house, but I'm sure it was in pretty bad shape when I got here.
I scored a major steal when a friend of mine donated loads of bricks to me. They've been sitting in his yard for over 30 years so he was happy just to see someone finally putting them to use. They were from an old building in town that got demolished in the 80's. So, now I have a bit of municipal heritage right here in my own back yard!
I had to do a lot of weeding and then built small trenches to fit the bricks into. It was fun because it was like a puzzle. I wanted them all to fit together perfectly, without mortar, just all sandwiched together.
I also had to get right into the raspberry bushes and thin them out. They didn't like it but in the end I won the battle.
I'm slowly adding some prettiness back into the space.
I'm still working on this area but I've created a clearing, away from the ants, where I can sit quietly and meditate, or pull out a yoga mat and do some stretches.
I couldn't get the ground completely level so I just used bricks under the pallets to balance them. When I found my pallets I made sure to grab the ones that had the slates close together. This whole area is in the shade in the morning and the branch overhead provides some shade in the evening.
I'm just waiting to get my hands on some free gravel to pour over top of the wood shavings. My hope is that this will add some contrast to the bricks and help to keep down the weeds. There's landscape fabric or newspaper under most of it but that disintegrates over time. And the weeds in my garden are pretty relentless, so the more layers they have to get through, the better.
It's all slowly coming along though and I'm happy with it. I love throwing on a folksy playlist on Songza and just spending the whole entire day working out there.
I've planted lots of veggies, so hopefully in a few months I'll be able to bring you an update that's a little greener~
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) introduced a bill today to ban the use of body-gripping traps by Wildlife Services, the highly-controversial arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. If passed, the bill would ban leg and foothold traps, Conibear and snare traps.
The Limiting Inhumane Federal Trapping (LIFT) for Public Safety Act would forbid Wildlife Services from using the traps, which are known to cause suffering to trapped animals. Wildlife Services routinely uses such traps to eradicate wildlife considered undesirable to agribusinesses, particularly livestock ranchers. The bill also bans the use of such traps on national forests, wildlife refuges, and other federal public lands managed by the U.S. Agriculture and Interior departments. The bill includes limited exceptions for invasive species control and protection of endangered species.
“The Center fully supports this long-overdue ban on these cruel, inhumane killing methods,” said Amy Atwood, endangered species legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “These unforgiving traps have no place in American society, and this law will ensure that no more animals have to die an excruciating death on the taxpayer’s dime.”
Wildlife Services has come under increasing pressure to reform by scientists, members of Congress, wildlife-friendly livestock ranchers and conservation and animal welfare organizations, due to multiple incidents involving the use of body-gripping traps that have harmed people or their pets and have resulted in the trapping of non-target wildlife. At the behest of the livestock industry, the traps are typically used to target animals like wolves, coyotes, bears and mountain lions despite the fact that research has shown such species are critical to healthy ecosystem function and that eradicating them to protect livestock is ineffective.
Wildlife Services killed 3.2 million animals just last year, including 68,905 coyotes, 480 black bears, 385 gray wolves, 284 mountain lions, 731 bobcats, 492 river otters, 3,437 foxes, 21,559 beavers and 20,777 prairie dogs.
“This bill will help stop this unnecessary killing and trigger broader use of non-lethal methods that emphasize coexistence with wildlife, not persecution,” Atwood said.
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I wonder what change looks like, fear. Physically, I mean. Is it bumpy and sharp? Wispy like a tumbleweed full of hot air? Or is it pebble-soft smooth, one of a million in a rain stick tumbling down?
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Stena Line sponsors Volvo Ocean Race The seven Ocean Summits bring together the worlds of sport, industry, government, science and ocean advocates, to discuss innovative solutions to the global crisis of ocean plastics. By convening key stakeholders, such as Stena Recycling, we can inspire people to help turn the tide on plastic.
Bluewater partners with Volvo Ocean Race Bluewater, the world leader in delivering crucial water purification solutions for homes and businesses, will provide high quality, safe to use, drinking water to visitors at Race Villages in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Auckland, Itajaí, Newport, Cardiff, Gothenburg and The Hague.
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CFDs or Contracts for Difference in full are one of the most traded instruments in the world.
They are assets that have been used to open the financial market to traders who do not have the large sums of money required to trade the given asset, CFDs are a tradable asset because they are just mirroring the price movements of the underlying assets.
This means that it is important to know how the underlying market behaves during different conditions to make an informed decision on the trades taken.
What are CFDs?
As a CFDs trader when you buy or sell the CFDs you do not in any way own the underlying asset, and that is one of the things that makes CFDs very popular there is no added responsibility that the owner of the CFDs would have when trading the asset.
CFDs are simply an understanding or contract between the broker who offers the CFDs and the client who wants to trade them.
Examples of CFDs are like those stocks, commodities, and indices offered by your brokerage firm.
When you trade these assets, you have an agreement to be party to the contract every time you put in a trade.
That is what makes this type of trading very attractive; the broker may have stocks from different exchanges from around the world, and you can trade them without ever having any responsibility of ownership you are just concerned with the price movement in relation to the position you have taken.
Many CFDs traders have one thing in common; they learn about the underlying asset to make the best decisions; they know what affects the underlying asset, the best times to expect a slow down or a rally and how to mitigate the losses if they happen to get any.
When trading CFDs the trader has the advantage of making a profit when the market is bullish is bearish, and that is why traders opt to trade the CFDs or use an assets CFDs as a hedge against any unprecedented moves in the market.
One can hold the underlying asset as a long-term position but trade the CFDs on a short-term basis to cover for any losses that may be incurred on the long-term position held on the underlying asset.
The Advantages of Trading CFDs Online
Trading CFDs online can be one of the most rewarding investments or careers in your life given you understand how to read charts and know when the best opportunities align you are going to be making more than enough to set yourself for a comfortable life.
The following are some of the advantages trading CFDs online have; it has low affordable margin requirements.
Since it is an agreement between you and the broker, and you are not holding the underlying asset, then you will only need a small amount of capital to trade the CFDs online.
The margins are even lower given your broker offers you leverage for the amount you have deposited.
The other advantage for trading CFDs online is that there are many CFDs that one can trade, from commodity CFDs, index CFDs, to stock CFDs and all these CFDs from various markets are all available on one platform that the broker is offering, and that is one of the best things that can happen to any trader, having a wide selection in a centralized location.
The number of CFDs varies from broker to broker given the number of markets they source their assets from.
Another advantage is that when trading CFDs, you can access a numerous number of markets from a single platform compared to having various accounts to trade two similar assets from different markets with CFDs all these are found in one place. When trading CFDs online, there is another advantage that makes it even more of a better option; the trader does not pay any commission or fees when trading rather the CFDs have their broker spreads incorporated so the broker gets their share whether the trader loses or makes money on any given trade.
Methods Used to Trade CFDs
There are very many methods that have been developed to trade CFDs online, but there are a few that have proven to consistently profitable given the level of understanding and trading knowledge the trader has acquired.
Many CFDs traders like trading the breakout method, which essentially is based capitalizing on the change in price direction.
In the case of a breakout trade entry, there must have been a pre-existing price trend, when that trend tends to come to the point of resistance or the trend is exhausted and is showing a willingness to change that is when we get a breakout and then a confirmation for entry.
The other method used is trend following, this mostly for the longer term traders who hold their trades in the existing dominant trend either bullish or bearish.
The other method is the contrarian method whereby the trader is always on the opposite side of the existing sentiment; the trader is bullish when the existing sentiment is bearish and vice versa.
Another method is the news trading method; the trader uses the economic news to make decisions on the probable price movement.
The trader will have to be very keen to decipher whether the news is dovish or hawkish to make the best trading decision.
The other trading method used in trading CFDs online is the swing trading method, the trader using this method understands that price moves generically thus creating swings; the swings are based on given time periods the least being the four-hour time frame.
That means the trader has to have an idea where price is probably most likely to go and the best entry point they can get.
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The doctor charged with providing drugs that led to the death of 3 Doors Down guitarist Matt Roberts was acquitted on Monday.
Dr. Richard Snellgrove was found not guilty on 13 counts of unlawful distribution of drugs and health care fraud. Snellgrove had faced up to 240 years in prison and $2.8 million in fines if convicted.
Snellgrove’s lawyer, Dennis Knizley, tells AL.com that text messages introduced by the defense at trial showed that Roberts was seeking illegal drugs in addition to medications he got from Snellgrove, and that alone showed that the doctor couldn’t be blamed.
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Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. – A French multinational video game developer and publisher
Ubisoft is a French multinational video game publisher and developer which is exceedingly well known for developing several acclaimed video game franchises including Assassin’s Creed, Prince of Persia, Far Cry, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell and Rayman, as a few of the most popular.
In March 1986, five brothers of the Guillemot family founded Ubisoft, a computer game publisher, in Carentoir, a small village located in the Morbihan department of the Brittany region, in France. Yves Guillemot was soon to make deals with Electronic Arts, MicroProse and Sierra On-Line, to distribute their games in France. By the end of the decade, the company had begun to expand to other markets such as the UK, Germany and the United States. They also entered the video game distribution and wholesale markets, and by 1993 they had become the largest distributor of video games in France.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ubisoft had committed itself to online games by supporting The Matrix Online, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and the European and Chinese operation of EverQuest.
The company is also noted for it’s female teams of game testers/developers, known as the Frag Dolls.
In July 2006, Ubisoft bought the Driver franchise from Atari and two years later in July 2008 the company made the acquisition of Hybride Technologies, a Montreal-based studio renowned for its expertise in the creation of visual effects for cinema, television and advertising.
Ubisoft announced plans in 2013 to invest $373 million into its Quebec operations over seven years, a move that will generate 500 additional jobs in the province.
Acquisitions and Partnerships:
- Future Games of London in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2009, acquired on 1 October 2013.
- Hybride Technologies, acquired 8 July 2008.
- Nadeo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France, founded in 2000. Acquired in 5 October 2009.
- RedLynx, acquired in November 2011.
- Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH in Heusenstamm, Germany, founded in 1993, acquired on 11 April 2007.
- THQ Montreal, acquired 22 January 2013.
- Ubisoft Abu Dhabi, located at media city twofour54 in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This studio opened its doors in December 2011, and it is the first ever gaming development studio in the Middle East that was launched by a multi-millionaire video games publishing company. The studio is also responsible for launching twofour54’s gaming academy.
- Ubisoft Annecy – best known for developing the multiplayer for Assassin’s Creed series.
- Ubisoft Barcelona, started 1998.
- Ubisoft Blue Byte (former Blue Byte Software) in Düsseldorf, Germany, founded in 1988, acquired February 2001.
- Ubisoft Blue Byte Mainz (former Related Designs), Germany, founded in January 1995 acquired a 30% stake in the company on 11 April 2007, fully acquired and integrated into Ubisoft Blue Byte in April 2013.
- Ubisoft Sofia in Bulgaria, started 2006.
- Ubisoft Casablanca
- Ubisoft Chengdu is the Chinese arm headquartered in the Chengdu Tianfu Software Park, Chengdu, since 17 September 2007. It was Ubisoft's second development studio in China.
- Ubisoft Germany in Düsseldorf, started in 1995, acquired Gamebusters in October 2001 and merged employees.
- Ubisoft Japan, started in 1994.
- Ubisoft Massive in Malmö, Sweden, founded as Massive Entertainment in 1997, acquired from Vivendi Games on 10 November 2008.
- Ubisoft Milan, started in early 1998. Developer, among others, of games in the Rayman, Just Dance, Beyond Good & Evil, Rabbids, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed series.
- Ubisoft Montpellier, acquired Tiwak in 2004 and merged employees. Developer of Rayman Origins, From Dust, and Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Michel Ancel is a developer for this division.
- UbiArt Framework, started in 2010.
- Ubisoft Montreal, started in 1997 as Ubisoft Divertissements Inc., acquired the Canadian division of MC2-Microïds (Microïds Canada) and integrated it into eventually merged into this division in March 2005.
- Ubisoft Nagoya, started in September 1996 as "Digital Kids". Acquired by Ubisoft in 2008.
- Ubisoft Paris, made games such as Rayman, Raving Rabbids 2, Red Steel, Red Steel 2, and XIII.
- Ubisoft Poland, opened in 2008.
- Ubisoft Pune, started on 1 May 2008 after acquiring the Pune Gameloft studio in India.
- Ubisoft Quebec, started 1 June 2005, based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
- Red Storm Entertainment based in Cary, North Carolina, United States, founded in 1996 and acquired in August 2000.
- Ubisoft Reflections in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, founded in 1984 as Reflections Interactive and acquired in 26 August 2006, from Atari.
- Ubisoft Romania in Bucharest, Romania, started in October 1992 and in Craiova from September 2008.
- Ubisoft San Francisco, Ubisoft’s North American headquarters.
- Ubisoft Shanghai, announced in early 2009 that their new, Shanghai studio would develop the upcoming Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 title, I Am Alive, instead of the originally expected Darkworks.
- Ubisoft Singapore, started on August 2008. Ubisoft cited the Singapore government’s demonstrated interest and support for the video game industry, together with other factors such as the quality of Singapore’s universities and training institutions, as reasons for opening a studio there. Ubisoft Singapore is focused on developing their own game titles.
- Ubisoft Taiwan
- Ubisoft Toronto, announced on 6 July 2009, is led by Jade Raymond. Their first productions will include a new installment of the Splinter Cell series made by staff coming from the series' core team at Ubisoft Montreal.
- Ubisoft Ukraine, started 29 April 2008.
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The company has begun a search for Messmer’s permanent replacement.
Escalade also reported $1.1 million in profit for the quarter ended March 24, down from $1.7 million a year earlier. Revenue of $33.5 million rose from $32.8 million.
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Metro Bus Service Lahore Map, Stations and Distances (in Kilometers)
Lahore (Sunday, February 10, 2013) – Pakistan first metro rapid bus service has been inaugurated by Punjab CM Mr. Shahbaz Sharif and PMLN president Mr. Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on the 10th February, 2013.
Metrobus route is 27 kilometers long from Shahdara to Gajju Matta and passes through the heart of Lahore metropolitan city.
Details about its route, bus stations and distances between each stations is given bellow.
Metro Bus Lahore Stations and Distance Chart
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I love retrospectives. If you haven’t checked out our video retrospective, chock full of bloopers, from 2015. You must! Looking back at the year lets you see how much you did accomplish. Because even if you felt like you came up short–believe you me, my list of potential posts is WAY longer than what actually got posted, you can see that you actually rocked it all things considered! So I did a bit of analytics sleuthing to see what you enjoyed most at Just Jennessa in 2015. And here it goes…working backwards! 10. The Container Queen Sharing all of my
Archives for recipes
We have purchased a share from a local CSA for the past five years (Farmer Dave’s). For the first year or two, we did the “half” share, but now that everyone is “growing up” we do a full share and I won’t lie–it’s a full time job keeping everything from going bad before we use it! While I love the concept of farm to table meals and encouraging my kids to eat their veggies–one is WAY better at it than the other–it does take a concerted effort to keep creative when you are looking at 6 cucumbers, 4 giant zucchinis
For the month of March, my video challenge is to “beat March madness” with weekly family fun nights. The only requirements–they have to happen at home and be focused “in the round”, not facing a screen. Easy, right? Our typical family fun night is home made pizza and a movie. But kids movies can not hold my husband’s attention, so he starts to wander and I can always find something to busy myself with and next thing you know, we are not family focused at all. So we’ve set out to try a few new things. Our first attempt was
Here is the debut series in my Just Jennessa webisodes. Not sure the correct thing to call these…shows, podcasts, webisodes, hot messes? In any case, each month I will do a new series of webisodes that center around one topic. This month the theme is “It’s Time for a System”. In January, my video challenge was A Pile a Day–challenging everyone to spend 15 minutes a day tackling one pile, drawer, tub, bin, cabinet, etc. to decrease clutter in the new year. One question that came up was, “How can I prevent the piles from returning?” For me, that is
While my husband will tell you that every day is Valentine’s Day, I would beg to differ! That aside, I do enjoy having fun with the kids for Valentine’s and this year with 60″ of snow and still counting, it’s the only thing keeping us sane! So here are some of my favorite Valentine’s ideas, crafts and goodies. Enjoy! These were Zain’s Valentine’s from first grade with bouncy balls…Valentine, You Make My Heart Bounce! It’s safe to say, they were a huge hit all round. Here is a link to a free printable of the card. I used clear cello
Meal planning is by far the most commented on and requested item of me and it’s fairly simple, but the first step is accepting you need a plan in the first place! You can’t make a meal if you don’t have the ingredients you need. You won’t have the ingredients you need unless you actually purchase them. Simple…right? Or maybe not! This photo is of my refrigerator yesterday after eating ourselves out of house and home over the holidays. It was pretty sparse and it was giving me hives. So it was back to reality for me. To make life
This is by far the easiest coffee cake recipes you will ever run into. It can be whipped up in less time than it takes to preheat the oven and it only takes 20-25 minutes to bake. Can you say, instant gratification? My boys love it! I make mine gluten free by using a gluten free one-to-one baking flour blend and dairy free with almond milk and Earth’s Balance ‘butter’. Since it has 3 teaspoons of baking powder it leavens very well in spite of being gluten free. Enjoy!
My boys live on waffles and way way back when Zain was little I would buy frozen waffles from the grocery store because they were easy and seemingly nutritious–right?!?! But over time, as I would make waffles on the weekends, Zain would revolt against the grocery store waffles, which was a compliment, I guess, but seemed like way too much work to make waffles every day. So instead, I started making large batches on the weekend. Enough for them to eat them for a weekend morning and enough to freeze for the week. Once they are cooled, I put them
I’m lazy when it comes to carrots. For my own eating pleasure, I only use cleaned and peeled “baby” carrots, so when we get “real” carrots from the farm as part of our CSA I look on like I’m not sure what to do with them. My first inclination is to make my mom’s famous Carrot Cake but that really negates the concept of a low calorie food. So these muffins are the next best thing. They are like little carrot cakes without cream cheese frosting (not that you couldn’t add that!) and, at least seem, less sinful. Whenever I
I always start my week with baking/broiling/grilling, or preparing in some fashion, six chicken breasts and I always pick up a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. So I am bound to have left over chicken on a regular basis. This recipe works great with any left over chicken–white or dark meat and is a twist on a typical chicken salad. I typically eat this over a lettuce salad where my husband would prefer it in a wrap. | <urn:uuid:8f0df028-0985-4b0b-a78e-c340b1643253> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://justjennessa.com/tag/recipes/ | 2018-11-18T04:33:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743963.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20181118031826-20181118053826-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.957807 | 1,280 | [
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Judicial Activism is when a court makes, rather than interprets, the law. Conservatives ALWAYS claim to be against judicial activism. Yet, a recent decision issued by the Ohio Supreme Court is an indisputable example of it. Worse yet, the winners (big business) and losers (injured workers) are clear cut.
In State ex rel. Presbyterian Retirement Services, Inc. v. I.C. the injured worker was deemed permanently and totally disabled. She later applied for permanent-partial disability benefits based upon a medical condition that had been added to her claim after her award of PTD. Because no written law or rule prohibited this type of application, the Industrial Commission granted her request and awarded a modest sum of permanent partial disability.
The Industrial Commission and Tenth District Court of Appeals denied the employer’s appeal of this award. Yet, the Ohio Supreme Court was able to do what neither the Commission nor Court of Appeals could: manufacture a reason to grant the employer’s appeal and deny the award.
This was a 5-2 decision. Retiring Justice Pfeiffer’s dissenting opinion was far more intellectually honest. He noted R.C. § 4123.95 requiring the Court to interpret uncertainties in favor or coverage – an often ignored provision. He added:
“…If the public policy of this state, as evidenced by the enactments of the General Assembly, does not countenance the award of concurrent benefits, the General Assembly could easily amend the statutory scheme. But even though concurrent benefits have been awarded in the past, as noted in the majority opinion, the General Assembly has not evinced its desire to prohibit concurrent benefits. Therefore, I would allow concurrent benefits in this case…”
It is hard to see this as anything other than a huge act of generosity to big business. An award of permanent partial disability is rarely more than a few thousand dollars, and even the maximum benefit under PTD (which workers rarely receive) is hardly a windfall. No one ever got rich on workers’ compensation disability – but many, many got poorer. Sadly, this trend is likely to continue until the makeup of the Ohio Supreme Court changes drastically. | <urn:uuid:1a336a60-2de1-4d03-948a-61267177222e> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://www.ohiobwclaw.com/blog/2016/12/27/the-ohio-supreme-courts-gift-to-injured-workers-is-a-lump-of-coal | 2018-11-18T04:00:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743963.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20181118031826-20181118053826-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.970866 | 447 | [
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We also offer bike builds if you’re looking to build up a bike to your own specification. Simply supply us with your new frame and the components to be fitted and we will build it up for you. This is priced from £70.
If you would like to use your current components that are on your current bike to be fitted to a new frame. We can transfer them over on to your new frame.
Or removal of the current groupset on your frame to fit your new groupset. This is priced from £98.
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I admit it. I was wrong. Darn it, and there I was thinking I was on top of my decorating game by telling everyone to just paint their walls white. Easy peasy, right? Well, not so fast, Blanche. I still love white walls 😆 . BUT! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with color if that is what you prefer. You just got feel it in your gut, ya know? I still don’t feel it in my gut to go painting every wall a bright color, but an accent wall…oooo doggy. Let’s do it! Presenting our “Stairway Dark Gray Accent Wall”. Actually, I guess you can say there are 2 accent walls.
Below you’ll see the stairs 9 years ago when we moved in. I fell in love with their craftsmanship and thought maybe we would add a runner, or paint the steps white, but I had no idea how far we would actually go with them. It seems, I just keep going further, and further. I think I may even be obsessed with these stairs.
In our home there are 4 sections of steps just like this…
They lead to the upstairs, and our walk-out basement. They really are the very first thing you view when you walk into our home, and the last thing you look at when you escape. What do you think of the “pineapple” finial? Well, we’ll have to talk about that later because I want to show you the painted dark gray accent walls…
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The photo above is looking at the staircase from the main floor family room. The foyer is there to the right where the dark navy rug is. You can see our homemade sidelight shutters there, too.
The photo below is looking down (be careful, don’t get dizzy) from the second floor where we have 4 bedrooms & the “Teen Salon Hang Out“. We recently added the colorful runner on this section of steps after already having it on the section in the above photo for a few months. We kind of procrastinated with that because it was a lot of work removing the old runner we had there. I’m happy to finally have them both covered with the same runner.
Aren’t the colors divine together? The bright pink, blue & purples compliment the wood tones in the steps, and the gray settles it all down and adds a touch of modern. The gold gallery wall is meant to be on a diagonal just for fun, and the gold adds a poof of glam.
Here’s the runner if interested in more details…
So, what do you think about the gray color we painted the 2 walls? I can’t get enough of it. I really really like it. I think it adds depth, and really brings out the colors in the runner. I love how the gold pops on it, too.
I picked out the gray paint color with my husband. It’s called Binary Star and it’s produced by Behr Ultra. We used 2 coats in satin sheen.
Kitty Boo Boo (AKA Forest our rescue cat) above doesn’t care about the paint, but he does appreciate a soft runner under his belly.
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The Vice President of India, M. Hamid Ansari released a book titled Walking with Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past, written by K. Natwar Singh, the former Union Minister for External Affairs on 1 March 2013.
In the book, experiences of Natwar Singh have been described in interesting approach. The book will enlighten the readers. In the book, K. Natwar Singh has put together 50 episodes which will entertain and inform the readers.
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The WHO's Silly Embargoes
I've always hated the presumptive embargo - the company or academic journal or quasi-governmental agency that sends out an email blast of "news", but stamps the word "EMBARGO" onto it, stipulating that the information cannot be published until a certain date. Not only does this practice undermine the concept of "news", but it often presumes that the journalist will play ball for no reason other than to get another such email later. As a matter of practice, I disregard the defacto embargo, and consider any press-release sent to me by email fair game, unless I have previously agreed to abide by a hold. That said, I will also admit that never, not once, have I been sent something on presumptive-embargo that I consider worthwhile, so I've never had the occasion to test this principle. Anyway, that's a long preamble for another tale from the World Health Organization's silly use of embargoes and penalties, in this case removing the Associated Press from its distribution list because they violated an embargo and ran a story announcing the eradication of polio in Somalia. To be clear, my sourcing on the WHO penalizing the AP comes from this blog post.
Now the AP and other media like the New York Times - which broke a WHO embargo last year and was likewise banned for two weeks - actually do agree to abide by these embargoes on an ongoing basis, in order to be on the distribution list. But this system reeks to me of an antiquated and impossible-to-maintain closed world of information that fails to serve anybody's interest, not the WHO's nor the media nor the people of Somalia or whereever the WHO may have waged a success. The WHO clings to the embargo because it's a way to maximize the exposure of their release - let everyone publish at the same time, starting at a set time. It's the same principle academic journals use in promoting their "breakthrough" studies. But just as these staid journals are being challenged by the power of open information via open access publishing, so the WHO - of all agencies, after all - should realize that by losing the charade of 'exclusivity' they might gain greater coverage. Put out your press release, but don't stick to an artificial charade. Let the AP dash off their report - that's their value as a news source. Let the NYTimes dwell on the news, add context and expertise, and publish their more thorough story - that's *their* value. And so forth, on to blogs, like this one, that may in fact be interested in the news but aren't privy or won't cotton to such embargoes. Who knows? Maybe we'd be writing about polio eradication, too, instead of the WHO's stupid short-sighted media policies. | <urn:uuid:592a1d7f-fdd2-4154-9a51-064192c20fd3> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.thomasgoetz.com/blog/2008/03/the-whos-silly-embargoes | 2018-11-18T03:23:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743963.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20181118031826-20181118053826-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.951295 | 585 | [
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4th Parliament · 2nd Session
Mr. Speaker took the chair at 2.30 p.m., and read prayers.
Debate resumed from 27 th September (vide page 876), on motion by Mr.
That, in the opinion of this House, the preferences in obtaining and retaining employment recently introduced into his Department by the Minister for Home Affairs are unjust and oppressive; prejudicial alike to the public interest, to the Public Service, and to the relations between Parliament and the public servants.
– My only reason for speaking to the motion is to endeavour to enable the country to realize the evils which are likely to follow the adoption of the pernicious practice of giving preference to unionists in appointments to the Commonwealth Public Service. Honorable members on this side have stated that this is the introduction of the American system of spoils to the victors a criticism to which honorable members cannot fairly take exception, because the Minister of Home Affairs himself hassaid that he thinks it only right and proper that the members of unions should receive some recognition for returning the Labour party to office. Parliament, however, must deal with administrative acts, not from the point of view of party advantage, but as they affect the national interest. Even members of the Labour party realize that a false step has been taken, and many of them, if free men, would object to what has been done. I have great respect for many of the Labour members as individuals, but 1 am sorry for them as nominees of the Political Labour Councils of Australia. Every man on the Government side is bound to vote as a duly constituted majority of the Caucus may determine ; not one of them is able to give his support freely to all legislation which he may think will benefit the community. The party is obliged to vote for class legislation, not for legislation having in view the national welfare and the development of the country. Australia has a population of about 4,500,000, of whom about 1,500,000 are bread-winners, and, according to officialfigures, there are fewer than 200,000 registered unionists. I have said before that the unionists, all told, registered and unregistered, do not number 300,000. Is the community to be ruled and dominated by this small minority ?
– Certainly not.
-The unions dominate the party to which the honorable member belongs. He and his fellows represent the Political Labour Councils of Australia, and are forced by their pledges to support preference to unionists. They cannot speak and act as free men, as we can. Each one of them is bound to support the decisions of the Caucus. My constituents allow me to exercise my own discretion in supporting or opposing legislative proposals, as I consider them advantageous or harmful to the public interest, but honorable members opposite are not free to do likewise. Could the honorable member for Corangamite oppose the granting of preference to unionists, which has been introduced at the dictation of his masters, the Political Labour Leagues of Victoria ? On the platform he and others were careful to say nothing about this.
– Can the honorable member support preference to unionists?
– No, because I do not believe in giving preference to anything but ability. Ministers should not have regard to the interests of one class only, and favour that class to the detriment of the taxpayers as a whole. Neither they nor their supporters are free men.
-I am willing to allow the honorable member considerable latitude, but he may not impute improper motives.
– I am merely sympathizing with the members of the Labour party. Like the fox inAEsop’s fable, having lost their tails, they want us to cut off ours. They would make the Commonwealth a close borough for Labour. My object is to broaden their views, so that they may pay regard to national as apart from class interests. I desire honorable members of the Labour party to consider for a moment what must be the effect of legislating for a class interest. Their political labour unions comprise only a minority of the people. It was said last night that the Labour party represents the trade unions of Australia, and I wish to say at once that I have nothing to say against trade unionism, conducted on fair lines, although I have at all times something to say against political unions. The present Administration - whom I always describe as a Socialistic Government - claim to be a Labour Government, but they do not represent labour as the Opposition do. We represent those who have to find the capital wherewith men are kept in continuous employment, and it is upon this employment that trade unions have been founded. I favour trade unions, but am opposed to the political unionism which dictates to the Labour party, and insists upon their so providing for preference to unionists as to prohibit free men from obtaining a livelihood. As the result of this Ministerial ukase, all avenues of employment under the Federal Government will be closed to the non-unionist - the free labourer.
– The honorable member cannot refute my statement. The Minister of Home Affairs in his official memorandum directed that the preference must be absolute. He may twist and distort his words as much as he pleases, but he knows what was in his mind when he- issued that circular, and he knows that it was intended that the preference should be absolute. In that memorandum he also directed the preparation of what has been correctly described as a black list - a list of non-unionists in the employ of the Government. Why did he ask for such a list? Was it not that the free worker should not get a straight deal? Think what has happened in connexion with strikes in Victoria alone since the Labour Government came into power. For the twelve months ended 30th June last, there were seventy-five strikes in the Commonwealth, and since the present Government have been in office we have had in Australia more industrial disputes than ever before.
– How does the honorable member arrive at that?
– I do not desire to deal with the honorable member. If I did, I should say something regarding the offensive allusions he made last night to the honorable member for Wimmera. “He ought to have had a little more sense, and to have shown better taste. I wish, however, to confine my remarks to the question of preference to unionists. Honorable members of the Labour party know how they have been forced into this policy of preference to unionists against their own better sense. I appeal to them to endeavour to induce their masters, the Political Labour Leagues, to reconsider the question, and to agree to their withdrawing the order issued by the Postmaster-General and the Minister of Home Affairs - and probably a similar direction has been given by other Ministers - in regard to preference to unionists. Is this what Democracy has. brought about ? When the people a’ little over ten years ago agreed to federate, did they imagine that Australia would be captured by Socialists who would introduce class legislation. I admit that one of the planks of the Labour platform is “ preference to unionists,” but I never heard it discussed in Victoria. In not one instance was it discussed on the Labour platforms in this State at the last general election.
– How many Labour meetings did the honorable member attend?
– Four or five.
– Did the honorable member interject at any of those meetings ?
– No. I knew that if I did, I should be treated as many of the free labourers were at Sunshine and in connexion with other strikes. I knew that I should be taken by the back of my neck and ejected, and that probably a lump of iron would be thrown at my head. By means of preference to unionists - by means of coercion and compulsion - the Labour party are seeking to force all free labourers into unions. The honorable member for Corangamite, who is supposed to represent a rural constituency, knows that when the present Minister of Trade and Customs held office in a previous Administration, a deputation from the Trades Hall urged him to impose an export duty on wheat, and that the Minister said that his sympathies were with the deputation.
– Order !
– I wish to show that this question of preference to unionists must affect the growing and exportation of wheat.
– The honorable member will be out of order in following that line of argument.
– 1 wish to show that those who represent, or misrepresent, rural constituencies-
– I am satisfied that the farmers who voted for Socialism last year will not vote for it in 1913. I am confident that some honorable members opposite who are opposing the progress of rural industries will know this Chamber no more after the next general election.
– I have called the honorable member to order several times, and I ask him now to confine his remarks to the motion before the House.
– I have been drawn aside by interjections. We are today a free people, but shall we continue to be if honorable members opposite continue to obey the behests of their outside organizations? If they do we shall be deprived of our liberty and freedom. The Labour party should remember that the freedom, the liberty, and equality which we all enjoy were won for us by our forefathers, and were handed down to us as a priceless heritage to cherish and uphold. But by granting preference to unionists in the way they are doing Ministers are placing a bar sinister on the escutcheons of nonunionists, and seeking to keep them out of the Public Service. Other people appreciate their freedom and equality even if the Labour party do not. Honorable members opposite would reduce the people to the level of serfs by means of this preference to unionists. By coercion and compulsion they desire to bring all into the fold of the unions. In a free country any man who cherishes his freedom should be allowed to do as he pleases-, and merit, and not membership of a union, should count. I have nothing to say against unionism. I believe in it. Let me tell the honorable member for Corangamite that nearly thirty years ago I was one of the first men to introduce the eight-hours principle in a large business in which I was one of the partners, and that stands to my credit to-day.
– But the honorable member has changed since; he does not practise it to-day.
– I have not changed. If the honorable member goes to my place where my men are working he will find that they have an eight-hours day, and are paid time and a quarter for anything over that period. That has been my custom for years. My motto is freedom and not coercion. These are facts that cannot be denied. The party opposite must consider that they are legislating for the whole of the taxpayers. I have never yet asked a man or woman in my employ how they vote. Those whom I employ do not believe in .political unionism, but unfortunately honorable members opposite do. In fact, they have to, because they owe their positions to it.
– How does the honorable member know?
– I know probably better than the honorable member does. If he wants it I can read him the pledge thathe signed before his nomination was accepted. I know all about that pledge. There are probably three semi-independent members on that side, but the rest of them have taken the pledge.
– Exactly the same as the honorable member’s pledge to the People’s party.
– I do not belong to the People’s party.
– I will read the pledge that the honorable member signed.
– I have never signed a pledge in my life. The honorable member can read it as much as he likes, but if he says it is mine the statement is false.
– I have repeatedly asked honorable members .to cease these continuous interjections.
– In the mind of ‘ every honorable man who stands for liberty, freedom, and equality of opportunity, preference to unionists means the thin end of the wedge of corruption . It means offering a premium to men to become unionists in order that they may help to return honorable members who are supposed to represent the labour interests of the Commonwealth. While honorable members opposite say that they represent the great bulk of the electors of Australia as a whole, they know as well as I do that they represent only a section, and that by their pledges they can represent no one else. F reference has been insisted on in their case, and was part and parcel of the pledge they gave to their party. They are now obeying the behests of that party, as its nominees. Speaking from this bench as a free man to men who are not free, I ask them to consider the fact-
– I rise to a point of order.-
-Order ! On two occasions I have called the honorable member to order for a similar remark. I ask him not to repeat it.
– Those remarks were called forth by interjections. I did not mean to repeat them, and now withdraw them. I want honorable members opposite to realize whither they are taking Australia. Their action must eventually mean chaos. Preference to unionists on the lines adopted by the Minister of Home Affairs must mean absolute preference and the black-listing of all the men employed in the Public Service who are outside of the ranks of unionism. We have been told by the Public Service Commissioner that there are between 18,000 and 19,000 temporary employes in the Government Service. Are all the non-unionists among those men to be coerced into unionism by the policy of preference ? Are they to be forced to surrender the freedom they now possess? I hope not, but I think they will be, because they must desire to retain their positions. One of the chief objects of preference to unionists is to make Australia a close borough for labour, and to still further strengthen the position of the party by the adoption of a policy which has been called by members on this side “ spoils to the victors.” I hope there will be offered a general equality of opportunity, that the preference to unionists order will be waived, and that the Government will rise superior to the occasion. I am satisfied that that is what the people want. They do not want this whittling away of the Constitution, on the lines attempted by the Government last session in connexion with the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The provision for preference’ to unionists in the Act of 1904 was inserted practically as a quid fro quo because the unionists were to give up their right to strike. We have heard honorable members opposite say since then that they will never give up their right to strike. There have been more strikes since 1904 than at any previous time in the history of Australia. In connexion with the preference to unionist provision which was placed in the Act by the united wisdom of .the House, the people of Australia have been practically sold like bullocks at Newmarket. I do not think that 95 per cent. of the electors of Australia know to-day that that section was inserted in the Act, although it was put there for a reason, and provided that preference could be given only on the direction of a Judge of the High Court. As soon, however, as the present Government took possession of the Treasury benches, they swept all those safeguards to one side, and on the 26th April of this year they took a referendum to ask for enlarged and extended powers. The people, as they well know, denied those to them by an overwhelming vote. I do not want to impute motives, but in all probability Ministers are now trying to do all they possibly can in the interests of political unionism before this Parliament expires by effluxion of time in. 1913. After taking away all the safeguards surround- ing the preference to unionists section in the Act of 1904, they have now done by administrative act ‘what the electors pf Australia said at the referendum that they were not to be trusted to do. Last year, in connexion with the amendment of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, they brought down an amendment to the effect that “preference shall be given to unionists.” After honorable members on this side had pointed out that that proposition was unconstitutional, a hurried caucus meeting was held, and the amendment was made to read that ‘ ‘ preference may be given to unionists.” These are facts which no honorable member opposite can deny. Preference was given in 1904 only on certain conditions with a view to allaying industrial trouble, but instead of that effect being achieved, the party opposite are extending industrial strife. We know what happened recently, and what happened at the Sunshine Harvester Works, and other places, just before the referendum vote’ took place. To-day, through organized effort, ill-feeling is being created, and now this proposition for preference to unionists is brought in. I want to see that feeling of unrest and distrust allayed, and legislation introduced in the interests of the people as a whole, and not in the interests of a section. I appeal to honorable members opposite, although they are pledged and bound, to meet in conference those whom they represent - that is, not the electors, but the Political Labour Councils of Australia - and tell them what evil results are likely to ensue from their recent action.. They know that what I am saying is correct, because they have threshed it out in the Caucus, and many of them agree with my remarks. Unless something of that kind takes place, as surely as night follows day the year 1913 will see those benches vacant so far as that party are concerned.
– We will take the risk.
– Honorable members opposite have taken their chance already. To me it matters not one whit which party occupies the Treasury bench, so long as it legislates with fairness, justice, and equity to the people as a whole. I am certain that that is the feeling of all honorable members on this side. I have no desire for place or power, but I do wish to see the spirit of fair play characteristic of the British race displayed by the party opposite towards those who are outside unionism.
– The honorable member is asking for something that is impossible.
– It may be improbable, but it should not be impossible. I wish honorable members opposite to consider that they are supposed to represent majority rule in a Democracy, but they believe in majority rule only when they are
Themselves in the majority. To-day let me tell them that they represent a minority of the people of the Commonwealth, and their advocacy of this principle of preference to unionists has alienated the support of many thousands who believe in many of their ideas, but object to their methods. Speaking in reply to the Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister said that their methods and principles were the same. 1 should blush for the Leader of the Opposition if that were so. Honorable members opposite believe in coercion and compulsion to force non-unionists into unions, whilst the Leader of the Opposition has suggested that if men are to be induced to join unions it should be by an equitable and proper method - that the objective should be the interests of the people as a whole. That is the difference between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, and it is the difference between Socialism and Liberalism. We on this side desire to do what, according to our lights, we conceive to be right for the benefit of the people as a whole, whilst honorable members opposite are prepared to do anything to retain place and power on the Treasury benches.
– Is that not offensive?
– I do not mean it offensively, because I admit that in advocating and practising preference to unionists honorable members opposite are doing only what they are pledged to do.
– Why should we not do what we are pledged to do?
– If honorable members valued their freedom as their forbears did, they would not pledge themselves to do what is wrong or unjust. They must know that preference to unionists denies equality of opportunity to the great bulk of the workers of Australia. The Labour party represent the strongest and best organized combine in the Commonwealth, and I appeal to them in their strength to fee merciful, and deal out even-handed juslice to non-unionist workers. We can do nothing at this stage but inform the misguided electors who Voted for Labour.
They did so without knowing Labour’s objective of Socialism, nationalization of industries, the abolition of capitalism, and the nationalization of land. The electors never anticipated that this principle of preference to unionists would be enforced as honorable members opposite are attempting to enforce it to-day, against, the wishes of the great bulk of the people. In dealing with this question, I should like to say that regard must be had for our primary producers. Honorable members should recognise that in years to come we shall be the largest grain and meat producers in the world, and that in the disposal of our produce we must compete in the world’s markets. If we cannot make a profit on our productions, we cannot develop our industrial resources as we desire, and continue to enlarge the avenues of employment open to Labour. The enforcement of this principle in our industrial life will tend to industrial stagnation rather, than to industrial progress, and must result, in calamity. Honorable members must be aware of the fact that twenty-five years, ago £1 would purchase more than £2 will, purchase to-day. That can be proved by the statistical records in all of the States, and if we adopt a course which must in-, crease the cost of production, how can we hope to progress? I wish honorable members to consider these matters, and deal out even-handed justice to the people as a. whole.
– I do not think that even the most ardent friends of the honorable member who has just resumed his seat will claim that he has said much that is germane to the subject under discussion. The question is one of preference to unionists as adopted by this Government in their administration. They are assailed on the ground that they are adopting methods which are unjust and oppressive in their operation. Well, if that be true, this is not the first time it has been done. This is not something that is new.
– Does the honorable member mean to say that the Government should have been unjust and oppressive in. their administration?
– I say that if it be so it is nothing new, since a previous Government adopted the same principle.
– Which previous Government?
– The Government of which the honorable member for Ballarat was at the head.
– As applied to the Public Service?
– I did not speak of the Public Service.
– It is the application of the principle to the Public Service that the Leader of the Opposition objected to.
– The honorable member for Ballarat told us that there were three parties in this Parliament, each of which accepted the principle of preference to unionists. Their only condition was that it should not be unrestricted, that the principle should be safeguarded and surrounded with limitations and restrictions.
– Restrictions against licence.
– But the principle was there.
– In the hands of a Court.
– And it was either so limited and so restricted as to be a mockery to those upon whom it is capable of being conferred, or it did really operate within the circle of those who cared to comply with the conditions laid down. The honorable member who just resumed his seat said that one of the conditions was that unionists should give up the right to strike ; another that their operations and objects should be non- political. But providing they gave up the right to strike, and were not political in their objects and operations, preference was to be given to unionists. It was either, then, a mockery or a fact. If it was a mockery it was a piece of political sham on the part of the Government who professed to confer it. If it was effective, then all the misery, iniquities, and inequalities which are now denounced as involved in the principle were there within the scope and ambit of its operation. What, then, have honorable members opposite to complain about? If it was effective, all its essential qualities were there. If it operated to the advantage of only one union, the moment it was applied, whether by a Minister of the Crown or a Judge of any Court, the effect would be the same. What could be the difference? It was either just or unjust in its effect; and if unjust, the injustice was the same whether the principle was applied to one or all of the unions, and whether it affected a hundred or a million persons.
– The honorable member’s premises are bad, and therefore his conclusions are bad. .
– Ah, the honorable member for Wakefield is no doubt a good judge of the matter !
– In any case, the previous Government are responsible for the premises.
– That is so. They laid down the principle.
– The principle is not the same.
– There is no need for me to affirm it. It is admitted to be the same by the honorable member for Ballarat. All the honorable gentleman says is that the principle was limited in its operation under certain conditions.
– The principle is not the same.
– Then the honorable member for Richmond is .in conflict with the honorable member for Ballarat, and not with me; and it is for the honorable member and his leader to settle the dispute between them.
– The honorable member is not quoting the Leader of the Opposition correctly.
– Probably the honorable member for Ballarat is better able to speak for himself and interpret his own thoughts than is the honorable member for Richmond. In any case, the principle is admitted. A new Government comes into office, and, as members ‘of a particular party that has always - ‘for certain reasons which may hereafter be discussed - adopted certain views, extended the principle. If there be anything wrong with the attitude of the Government upon this question, it is not that they have extended the principle of preference to unionists to their own employes, but that “they did not extend it to them the very day after they assumed office. All honorable members recognise the principle, and if it be a good one there can be no limits to its operation.
– We do not all admit it.
– That is because the party to which the honorable member belongs is a party of such diverse opinions that its members cannot agree upon anything. The Government have granted a preference to unionists, and honorable members opposite at once anticipate all sorts of evils. They feed upon their imagination. They assume corruption, and by innuendo declare that honorable members upon this side of the chamber sit behind a body of men who are corrupt, and who are inciters to murder. When I look at those who confront us, who pride themselves upon their intellectual superiority, and who exhibit such exquisite culture and manners upon all occasions, I am impelled to ask what are their methods of conducting political warfare. They are not content to discuss the pros and cons of this question - they must make affirmations concerning the motives of those who” have given effect to the principle for which we are contending. The honorable member for Kooyong, for example, spoke of corruption in this connexion. Such words fall trippingly from the lips of honorable members opposite, but most trippingly from those of the honorable member for Kooyong. In my judgment, corruption should be the last word that he should use: unless he has become a repentant sinner. Then, the Leader of the Opposition spoke of us as inciters to murder. Have we wild men of the woods amongst our adherents ? Who are the gentlemen who have declared that upon this question a minority would appeal to an armed revolution against the decision of the majority? ‘Honorable members opposite say that we have not reprobated certain statements, but I would ask them whether they have denied the allegations which have been made by some gentlemen within their own ranks ? They do not appeal to reason. The first question they ask is, “ Who said it? “ and the next, “ Who did it?”
– Give a specific case.
– A responsible representative of the people, in the person of Mr. Wetherspoon, distinctly stated that he would arm himself against the law.
– Who is he?
– Where have honorable members opposite denied his statement?
– Name anybody upon our side who has said that he would arm himself against the law.
– I have given a name already - I have quoted a specific instance.
– Is the statement true?
– The press which supports honorable members opposite published it as being true.
– A most outrageous statement.
– All parties in this country have men within their ranks who make indiscreet statements, and who do indiscreet things, and no party should be held responsible for them. No church could stand alone if it were to be condemned by the improper acts of some of its adherents. Christianity itself would fail if it were judged by the infamies of some persons who have spoken in its name. What, then, can be thought of the action of honorable members opposite who, both inside and outside of this chamber, descend to such tactics to accomplish their ends? But they do not stop there. In this connexion, I would remind them that even the savages take their womenfolk out of the battle-field. But my honorable friends do not even spare the womenfolk of Ministers. The honorable member for Parramatta has affirmed that his side never appeals to prejudice. Yet its members drag even the wives of Ministers into the fighting arena. They discuss the dresses which they wear - these gentlemen of culture and good taste.
– Is the honorable member referring to me? Does he say that I ever did that?
– These are the methods which are adopted by honorable members opposite. I say that what I allege was done.
– The party organ of the Opposition did it at the recent referenda.
– Not content with that, photographs were taken of the Prime Minister’s residence, and these were published abroad. Do honorable members opposite desire him to live in a humpy? Do they wish his wife and children to be clothed in rags?
– Who did this?
– The whole of the honorable member’s party, without exception. They declare that a man named Schopenhauer, who lived in Germany fifty years ago, was a Socialist, and that because he committed bigamy, therefore, all Socialists are bigamists. That is the line, of argument which they pursue.
– Does the honorable member call this argument?
– It is the line of argument which is followed by the honorable member’s party. It is the infamous policy which they adopt in discussing public questions.
– Certainly, the Leader of the Opposition adopts it. He said, “ Here is a member of the Trades Hall Council- “
– I never said anything of the sort.
– He said, “ Here is a man who incites to murder. He belongs to your party, therefore you are all inciters to murder.”
– This is the veriest caricature. Let the honorable member read Hansard, and see what I really did say.
— The statement of the honorable member for Bourke is true. He has illustrated the kind of argument we have been hearing all through this debate.
– That is scarcely fair.
– Why, honorable members opposite’ would crucify Christ to serve their political ends if they had an opportunity.
– Is that remark in order, sir?
– I admit that it is not, and consequently I withdraw it. Let me mention another argument which has been put forward in opposition to the granting of a preference to unionists. The honorable member for Kooyong, and the honorable member for Grampians, both spoke of a period prior to the advent of the Labour party - of those glorious halcyon days when peace and contentment reigned throughout the land. I shall show that these honorable members and those who share their views, when they drew such fancy pictures, were living, as they have always lived, upon affirmation and assertion.
– That is what the honorable member is doing.
– I shall show what were the conditions of labour in this country prior to the advent of the Labour party, and that the attitude of the Government is justified by the necessities of the hour. I shall demonstrate that if we were not prepared to do what the Government are doing to-day we should be unworthy of the name and the cause to which we stand pledged. Infinitely better would it be that this Government, and those who stand behind it, should go out of political existence than that we should hold our places in this Parliament by an ignominious sinking of the principles of the cause to which we have devoted ourselves. The Labour party in this country came into existence for certain definite reasons. The honorable member for Ballarat was a member of the Government in this State at that time. Our organizations were few, and they were -very weak. A heavy burden rested on the shoulders of the men who carried the banner at the head of the movement. It was found necessary in the year 1882 in this
State of Victoria to make an examination into the condition of the working classes.* A Royal Commission was appointed. That Commission reported to Parliament in the year 1883 that there were 20,000 persons in Victoria who were subjected to grievous hardships. It was reported that under the system then prevailing there was forced labour which was “ repugnant to every sense of justice and humanity.” There was no Labour party then, but there was a very strong and powerful Government in existence. The report stated that -
In many places employes were obliged to work for periods beyond the limits of human endurance.
These were the conditions under which 20,000 working men and working women lived in this State prior to the advent of the Labour party ! The Commission reported -
That hundreds of young girls were employed at work daily from 10 to 15 hours. That journeymen bakers usually worked 15 hours daily. That tailoresses have to work 14 to 16 hours a day to earn a livelihood, and that similar conditions prevail in other trades. That there was an absence of due regard for the division and classification of the sexes, and even of those arrangements which common decency demand. That labour was carried on under both physical and moral disadvantages, resulting in premature debility and disease. That in many places young girls were kept during the busy season all night at work, and no appreciable extra remuneration given for the work done during over hours.
– What Commission was that, and what Government appointed it?
– It was appointed by the Government of the day.
– A Labour Government?
– No. The Commission was appointed as a concession to public opinion. Then, as now, we had to fight against men who were ready enough to make professions of principle, but never sought to realize their professions in legislation.
– That was a recognition that public opinion could make itself felt.
– The public feeling was created by the working class unions, supported by their hard earned contributions. They were determined to end those conditions of labour which were “ beyond the power of human endurance “ j but the honorable member for Ballarat was one of the men in the powerful Government of the day that did nothing to assist them.
– I was a member of the Royal Commission, and not a member of the Government at that time.
– That Government did nothing.
– I brought in the first Factory Act in this State.
– A Factory Act in name and nothing more.
– It was the most advanced Factory Act in Australia at that time.
– It did nothing to cure these evils.
– It did; and it was the basis upon which the Factory Acts of today are founded.
– The honorable member was a member of a Government later than that, in conjunction with the reactionaries Service and Gillies, and when that Ministry went out of office the A.ge summed up its history by saying: “This Government which has ended its career has left a million deficit, a host of unemployed, vast areas of unutilized land, and a legacy in misery and disaster for which the inhabitants of Victoria will curse or mourn for many a day.” What have we as supporters of a Labour Government to lose in comparison with Governments that preceded us? If we turn to the conditions that prevailed in another State, that of Queensland, we may well ask what were the circumstances existing there prior to the Labour party coming into being. They were conditions full of horror and atrocity. Black labour supplemented white, murder stalked abroad in the land, and it was impossible to secure justice against those who perpetrated iniquities. I shall read merely one fraction of evidence in connexion with the labour conditions of Queensland at that time. Here are a few items from the diary of a man whom the Queensland Government refused to prosecute. Speaking of the kanakas, under his control, he said -
Brutes will not work- had to thrash them. . . I ran amuck yesterday. Loaded up the gun with coarse salt and shot it into them.
It made the b- s hop. . . . Got Connell to make me a new cat - a proper one. He made me a beauty. It has five tails done up hard, and with strips of lead let into the strands. The old one had only three, and was worn out. There was no hold in it - no bite. Triced up six of the wretches and thrashed them. Their skins are thick. . . . Men I flogged last night very sore, but very quiet.
The next item will show to what this sort of thing led -
The wretches that I flogged are all dying. Nunergoh died at 4 this morning. I gave Var Vai a purge, but he died at 7 ; Tamarich followed at 2 p.m., and an hour later Baimow coughed his last. At 7 p.m. Marrow died. I gave Malla.rout ten drops tincture of iron, but he rolled over on his stomach and died. He was a big powerful man. He seemed to stand the flogging well. Perhaps I did flog him too much. The others are all crying, but very quiet. “ Very quiet “ - that is how honorable members opposite like them ! They were “ very quiet” indeed ! One is reminded of the remark of the Russian General who stood amongst the ruins of Warsaw. “ Are they at peace?” “Yes, your Majesty; they are dead.” The Queensland Government, as I have said, refused to prosecute this man, and the Imperial Government had to notify the Colonial Government, through the Earl of Derby, that they themselves must take action against this shameful miscarriage of justice. In 1884 they sent H.M.S. Raven up the Brisbane River as a protest against these proceedings. That is a page from the past to which some do not like references to be made; but I have thought it necessary to make them, on account of remarks concerning the glorious times which prevailed preceding the advent of the Labour party. Our organizations were not powerful in Queensland or Victoria then. But by the contribution of funds, and by earnest efforts directed to a common end, it was seen that it would be possible to organize the working class in such a manner as to bring effective influence to bear upon Parliament. The Labour movement of to-day is not confined to the presence of a few men on the floor of this House. Outside it is a political and organized factor. It leaves its impress on the men who sit in Parliament, and its past is stained with the cruel records of men who fought year after year in the cause, and were blacklisted from one end of Australia to the other with the inability to secure jobs. It has been laid down as a principle - and it is part and parcel of our platform - that wherever a Labour Government has the opportunity, it shall prevent the old system of discrimination against men because they were unionists. The Leader of the Opposition stated that what the Government proposed to do was absolutely without a precedent ; and when an honorable member pointed out that, in the great city of London, with a population of 7,000,000, the same principle had been applied, he asked, “ What analogy is there between a vast city, with a population of seven millions and a quarter, and a continent with a population of only four millions and a quarter ?” Whenever we prove there is a precedent he says, “No analogy” ; and when we prove that there is an analogy he says, “ No precedent.” He proceeded to another thing, and started to quote an illustration. He said, for instance, that this principle does not apply to insurance ; and when an honorable member pointed out that there are discriminations and preferences to those who insure, and apply for public positions, he hopped from that branch to another ; in fact, he hops from branch to branch, saying that there is no analogy. No matter how he may hop from one position to another, he is still in the one place, because he is in the one tree. That is his life story. It was the same thing in connexion with Sir George Reid, when the honorable and learned member took the headship. I have a little story to tell. When a person remarked, “ It was very good of you, Mr. Deakin, to speak so com.plimentarily of Sir George after all you had said against him.” He replied, “ I never said anything in favour of him.” “Oh, but you did,” said the other person. The honorable member replied, “ Read the newspaper. What I did say of Sir George Reid was that it was said that he sang songs in many keys and tones, but I did not say he sang them. What I did say was that a large number of people were favorable to the appointment of a fit man; but I did not say that Sir George Reid was a fit man.” We can never catch or trip the honorable and learned gentleman. He appealed to the glorious principles of religious and political liberty. Goodness gracious !
– The honorable member is an artist in fiction.
– Well, I would have to take a lesson from the honorable member.
– I hope so. I wish that the honorable member would.
– The honorable member appealed to the glorious principle of religious freedom. Goodness gracious ! Has it any application in any form 01 shape to the question before the House? Who fought for religious liberty? Who realized religious liberty? Was it the men who maintained the laws of intolerance, or those who combated iniquitous laws?
– The Liberals in all ages have done so.
– That is not my question. According to the honorable member, the Liberals have discovered everything.
– .There are just as liberal men on this side as on the other.
– Hear, hear. We are not arguing that point, but the question of religious liberty.
– The honorable member is pretending to do so, but he is not.
– I quite admit that no one ever argues, but the honorable member himself.
– It is time that the honorable member came to the question.
– What am I dealing with if I am not dealing with the arguments which have been put forward from the other side?
– Lord knows ! I do not.
– The honorable member ought to know. Honorable members on his side have been drum-beating and flagwagging over the question of individual liberty. They have been flagwagging over the question of religious liberty, and trying to draw some analogy between that question and the issue- before the House. They have affirmed that there is some relation, but I deny that there is. The principle of religious liberty was fought for by those who combated the laws of intolerance and the world approves largely the men who upheld those laws, while the men who fought and suffered for religious liberty are mouldering in unknown graves. Who, for instance, maintained the principle of the liberty of the press? Was it men like Castlereagh, with his six gagging Acts, “ whose dry bones rattle,” as some one has said. Or was it the Leigh Hunts, and such men and women as Richard Carlile and his wife, who, for twelve long years, went to and from prison. Honorable members on the other side talk of law and order, but they fail to see that the men who won the priceless liberties which we enjoy to-day were not so much those who maintained the laws as those who struggled to improve them against the obliquities of their time. Who else fought for industrial liberty? The honorable member for Parramatta knows as well as I do that the history of the struggle for industrial liberty is written on prison walls, rather than on monuments. Every fight which has been made, whether it was for religious or political, or industrial liberty, has to be continued. And what is the last stage at’ which we have arrived ? It is the freedom of men and women from the brute struggle for existence, so that there shall be evolved a higher plane of civilization.
– For all men, not for unionists only.
– Just so; I shall come to that point. In this new Australia we have laid down in our Defence Act the principle of preference. It provides that a man shall defend his country, and that if he stands on the basis of individual liberty, and claims the right not to shoulder a musket, then it imposes upon that man penalties of all descriptions. It excludes him from the service of his country, and, in his old age, it precludes him from a pension. In that Act Parliament laid down the principle of preference to the man who will take responsibility for the defence of his country, and imposed penalties on the man who prefers to stand outside and to take all the assistance of the armed forces which his fellow-citizens may give him. In a like manner the essential principles of a free Democracy are that it shall be organized for the maintenance of these great liberties. So that, if it gives up one particular portion of its liberties it may achieve another. And the main thing which the working classes need to win is the freedom to earn their bread in the sweat of their brow - not in the sweat of their brow getting no bread, as was the old system.
– Why does the honorable member want to deny it to nonunionists ?
– Do not the servants of the Commonwealth get well paid? There is no question of earning bread involved in this motion, but the question of preferring one class to another, or driving all into one class.
– The only way by which working men and working women have emerged from the dens of savagery, and secured what modicum of human liberty and freedom they possess to-day has been through the power of organization.
– By voluntary organization.
– By resistance to the old system of bludgeoning and armed force on every hand. Everywhere it is essential that we shall demand that if a man is desirous of improving his condition he shall not be, as the honorable member for Parramatta said, skulking in the rear, either in the industrial or in the national struggle. I may here point out that the word “skulking,” as used in the newspapers, was not the Prime Minister’s expression, but the quoted expression of the honorable member for Parramatta. If it is obvious that organization is essential - if we see that in every country the working classes are the better off where they are the best organized - it is the duty of the Government to assist organization in every possible manner. There can be no objection to this policy in a country where the principle of compulsory training is laid down; indeed, there must be recognised the principle of the organization of the working Democracy. The last argument used by honorable members opposite is that the party behind the Government is a class party. What if it is? In the past, Governments have been class Governments in the interests of property, and not of human beings. The Government which legislates in the interests of the working classes is essentially a democratic Government, seeing that the working classes constitute the majority of the community. A Government cannot possibly be a democratic Government unless it recognises its duty to persistently lift up the lower strata of society to a higher level. A Government to be truly democratic must remove the abuses of society until every man who is willing to work shall find himself free from the brute struggle for existence, and thus enabled to attain his true development on a higher intellectual and moral plane.
– - The speech of the honorable member for Bourke is one of the most remarkable I have ever listened to in a deliberative assembly. I do not intend to refer to the utterance in detail ; but when I listened to the blood-curdling, abominable episode, the particulars of which he submitted, with the evident intention of conveying the impression that it was characteristic of what this side of the House would desire, I could not help thinking that he himself must be conscious that he was appealing to a very simple lot of ignoramuses elsewhere. The honorable member has followed the example of several honorable members opposite by trailing a “ red herring across the track.”
– It is a pretty big “ red herring ! “
– It is the biggest “red herring” in my experience; and it was for very obvious reasons that it was introduced. Very few honorable members opposite have really addressed themselves to the question, because it is for them an exceedingly difficult task. The honorable member for Bourke condemned honorable members on this side for doing that which according, even to his own statement, they never did, and then he committed the very offence which he laid at their door. I desire to say a word or two about the honorable member’s reference to the struggles of the poor and oppressed, in the direction of freedom and better conditions of life. The emancipation of the people in different parts of the world has been due very largely-
– To the bosses !
– Has been due very largely to the Liberals - the leading men of the Liberal party, not only in Australia, but in the older countries. These men have given immense assistance in placing the Labour party in the parliamentary position they occupy to-day.
– The honorable member cannot possibly connect his party with the Liberals to whom he is referring.
– I can connect it in a very pointed way if the honorable member so’ desires. The Labour party of Australia possibly owe more to the men they are scandalizing than they do to men in their own ranks, in respect of the industrial legislation that has been placed on the statute-books of the various States. It is the free, independent, untrammeled Liberalism of the last fifty years that has brought about the great reforms which bless humanity in every direction to-day. On the question of preference I do not intend to occupy any great length of time. T may say at once that, in my opinion, this preference is the strongest expression of class privilege ever known in any Australian Legislature. As has been said over and over again, the Government, at the direction of the power outside, have sought to bring about by administrative act what was absolutely impossible by means of legislation, and what was distinctly made impossible by a verdict of the highest Court in this country.
– We have the numbers here to carry an Act !
– If the Government have the majority behind it to enable it to carry such an Act, they ought to use that majority and power with discretion, and not abuse it. The majority of the Labour party was never secured to carry out anything like the preference to unionists now proposed. I know very well that the Government have a Socialistic majority, and that while they are in power they may do what they like. This Government is using its power in such a way as to offer a challenge to the people of Australia, the acceptance of which will give honorable members opposite a very busy and anxioustime.
– Another prophet.
– It does not need much of the prophetic spirit to know that what I am saying is an absolute fact. The Labour party will haveto appeal to a higher tribunal. If, in itslegislation and administration, it is marching ahead of public opinion, its power cannot last long. The reply to the referenda was an absolute and positive refusal to allow the Labour party to go further indie direction in which it is now trying togo. I do not think that the Government have voluntarily allowed this matter to come into the daylight, nor do most of its supporters desire that it should be generally known that the party supports the vicious principle of giving preference to a privileged class. The real position is that the party in power is, by its administration, granting a privilege to itself; boiled-‘ down, the action of Ministers means neither more nor less than preference to theorganized Labour party. The Prime Minister, replying to the Leader of the Opposion, said that it was intended to organizesociety industrially, as far as they could; that preference to unionists was the policy of the Government, and would be carried out. That means that the Labour party- intends to organize industrially at the expense of the taxpayer. Some of its members have admitted that they did not know when the principle of preference was first put into practice in the Commonwealth service. We have been given to understand that it has been in force in the Department of Home Affairs in certain States, but we have not been told why it has been in force in some States and not in all. The Postmaster-General, too, told us yesterday that, in respect of some underground telephone work in Melbourne and Sydney, heexpressed to his executive officers, in writing, the desire that preference to unionistsshall be made applicable. That announcement came as a surprise to many honorablemembers opposite. The instruction of theMinister of Home Affairs on the subjectwas characteristically emphatic, and, without qualification ; the preference was to be absolute. During the debate, that absoluteness has been whittled down considerably. I leave the House and the people to say whether obviously the intention was not to proceed quietly in. this matter of giving preference, and whether it was really intended to give effect to the limitations spoken of by the prime Minister. I admit that the Labour party had a mandate to enforce - unconditional preference to unionists - at the earliest opportunity ; but why has the system been introduced secretly, even in the Department whose Ministerial head comes from a country where there is a great belief in advertising, and who is himself a great advertiser ? Why did not he let the taxpayers know what was being done? Why, too, has the policy been put into force in some of the States, and not in all? We wish to know whether the future policy in connexion with the employment of casual .workers will be on the lines laid down by the Prime Minister, or whether the preference to unionists is to be absolute and without reservation? I have not the slightest doubt that the preference is to be made absolute, and that it will get beyond the control of any particular Minister, and of the Ministry itself. How far is it to be extended? Is it to apply only to manual labourers, or is it to apply to every division of the Public Service? According to to-day’s newspapers, the Melbourne Clerks Union, at a recent meeting, passed unanimously the following resolution -
That this union desires to express its admiration and support of the action of the Federal Government in their determined altitude on the question of preference to unionists in Government employment.
I suppose that this principle, if applied to casual workers, must apply to every class, both clerical and manual.
– Why not?
– It would be iniquitous if it did not. If it applies at all, it must apply all round, and the policy of the Government is at the first opportunity to extend it to the whole Public Service.
– The honorable member says that is right.
– I say that if it is right to apply it to one class it is right to apply it to every class ; but I do not believe in the principle at all. It is all very well for Ministers, to carry on this organizing work - for it is nothing else - at the expense of the taxpayers ; but I should like to know what it is going to cost. We must be guided by our experience of Labour Administrations, and whilst that experience does not cover many years, either in connexion with the Commonwealth or the individual States, it teaches us that it is most difficult for a Labour Government to properly control and effectively maintain the big public Departments employing manual labour. We have evidence of that in South Australia extending over, not days or weeks, but many months. Almost continuously during the last eighteen months, the South Australian Labour Government has been all but powerless to properly control and maintain efficiently the big working Departments of the State. And why ? Because’ the very people outside, to whom these Labour Administrations owe their existence, are enforcing their will upon them. It should be the first aim of the Government, not only to maintain efficient administration and equality of opportunity for every one of every colour, but to hedge about their administration by proper safeguards.. Instead of doing so, however, they are removing safeguards and encouraging, if not inciting, interference by these outside forces which control the destinies of Australia to-day. The Prime Minister has twice pointed out that no complaint has been made against the administration of the present Government ; but the session will not be much older before distinct and very emphatic attention will be turned to the administration of the spending Departments of the Commonwealth. We shall want to know - and this is wrapped up with the very kernel of the vicious principle that is being applied by the Government - what the public works of the Commonwealth are costing. We shall want to know how day labour is panning out.
– It is panning out so well in New South Wales that the Government brick-yards are turning out bricks at about half the previous cost.
– The honorable member’s judgment is a little premature. It is little more than a few days since the State brick-yard commenced operations, and I believe that within the next three or four years, if the present majority in Federal politics continues, bricks will cost three or four times more than they are now doing.
– Surely the honorable member has no doubt as to our remaining in power.
– I have not. I am sure that there is going to be a wholesale clearance in order that we mav secure Government administration on commonsense and sound commercial lines. I am not. going to be prophetic, and. to say what my honorable friend’s pet brick-yard is going to be in the future, but I am confident that many of the public works undertaken by the Commonwealth at present are costing from 50 per cent. to 100 per cent. more than did the same class of work two vears ago.
– “ Tripe !”
– If my statement is “ tripe,” then let us have a full, critical, and unbiased investigation of the whole business.
– What is the honorable member’s trouble?
– My trouble is that the administrative work of this Government is responsible for the enormous burden that the taxpayers have to bear - the burden of increased cost of public works that ought never to have been put upon them.
– This does not seem to have much to do with preference to unionists.
-It has much to do with it. I am showing that by applying preference to unionists te the biggest bodies of unionists, the Government are putting into the hands of their supporters - indeed, they have it in their hands to-day practically - the control of the administration, as well as of the politics, of the Commonwealth.
– Are not the Government entitled to attend to the administrative work of the Commonwealth?
– They are if they administer their Departments effectively. But they are not entitled to introduce in connexion with public works an era of irresponsibility - an era in which administrative officers carrying out the various works of the Commonwealth have little or no authority. The authority of these men, even if it be exercised in the most distinct manner, is overridden by administrative acts. These men are humiliated.
– Where ?
– In the Commonwealth, and as things are drifting to-day, wherever a Labour Ministry obtains.
– Name any of these men.
– It is unnecessary to name them to the people outside. In South Australia, the very men to whom the Government are granting a preference - these organizing agitators - are running about the public works of the State disorganizing work, and enforcing their will upon the administrative powers for the time being. The enforcement of their will and the demoralization of the service in this fashion was responsible for the Rundle-street strike, and also for the drivers’ strike in Adelaide. These, and the strikes that have been occurring, if not daily, very nearly weekly, for many a month past, are the natural outcome of the controlthat is exercised over administration by irresponsible bodies outside this House.
– I want to inquire into those cases, if the honorable member will only name them.
– I would not give one rap for the value of the Minister’s inquiry, unless it was impartial. It would be of no use to make inquiries among the men to whom the Government are giving preference, who are the supporters of the Government, and who are responsible for their existence in this House and on the Treasury bench. We could not expect, from an inquiry of that sort, any report in which the people of the country would have confidence.
– Why does not the honorable member get to the point, and let us know what he is talking about?
– What I am saying is all point, and the honorable member does not like it. The honorable member and those associated with him dare not give us an inquiry, but we are going to get it as far as that is possible. The Prime Minister recently congratulated himself that the question of the administration of the Departments by the Government had not been referred to unkindly, or had not been touched upon at all, but it is going to be touched upon, particularly in view of the Government’s open declaration of the policy of preference to “ the people who prefer us and support us,” because, in 90, if not 95, per cent. of the instances, that is what their preference absolutely means. I want to know again what preference to unionists in this form is going to cost the Commonwealth, not only in respect of the public buildings in the cities and big towns, where everything goes on under the eye of the public generally, but in the construction of the Western Australian railway and other works of that kind, which are right away from the public eye, and where the responsible officer of the Department has to be depended upon for the proper execution of the job. This vicious principle is going to demoralize the Public Service-; they have already been demoralized under Labour administration in some parts of Australia. If the authority of the responsible officers, who are paid liberally to control the men and secure a fair deal both for them and the Government who employ them, is to be whittled away as it has been, it means that these big concerns are going to be managed from the bottom, and not from the top. The people of Australia realize that, and realized it, too, when the referenda were put to them. They said, “ We are not going to give the absolutely unlimited powers asked for.” This question is not going to be ended to-day, or with this debate. This is only the beginning.
– Are we to have this ad libitum 1
– We are going to have it morning, noon, and night for the next eighteen months, until the people from end to end of Australia know just how things are going on.. We want them to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and it will stagger them when they do know *it. This question is altogether wider-reaching than the Public Service, although the principle is intended to operate within the service. If the operation of the principle is going to have a demoralizing effect on labour inside the service, it will have the same effect on labour privately engaged outside the service, and also on the industries of Australia. Honorable members on this side of the House believe sincerely and earnestly in seeking all proper and necessary constitutional means for the protection of the worker, and the development and protection of Australian industries, but, personally, I am against preference root and branch, except the preference to efficiency. Any other preference means demoralizing the character and the stamina of the workers, and will have a very bad effect. on the future of the Commonwealth. Are honorable members opposite in earnest when they say they want to bring about industrial peace ? I believe that two or three of them honestly do desire it, and would subscribe to a thoroughly exhaustive attempt to make the exercise of our present powers as effective as possible, but one cannot help being impressed when other honorable members declare, in effect, that they are more for war than for peace - that they will not give up the right to strike, but intend to continue to exercise the privilege of striking very frequently indeed.
– We shall get peace when the lion swallows the lamb.
– We shall get it when the lamb is inside the lion, and not before, if a good many honorable members opposite have their way. We on this side believe in doing everything that . is humanly possible by legislation to bring about industrial peace on a fair and equitable basis, but we do not believe in the methods now adopted by the Federal Go?vernment. The introduction of the principle of preference to unionists - preference to a class or section of the community - means, not peace, but the very reverse. We want peace and equality of opportunity, and, above all else, we ought to preserve the imperishable principles of freedom and liberty of action, to every citizen of the Commonwealth.
– I have listened most attentively to honorable members on the other side of the House, but I have yet to learn why this adverse motion has been tabled. We have not heard one argument to show why it was necessary, or to prove that the action of the Government is unjust or likely to be oppressive to any man in the community. Why, then, should the time of the House be taken up with the motion at this stage of the session, when we have just ended the debate on the AddressinReply? The Opposition have launched it for what purpose? For the purpose of wasting the time of the House, and not for the good of the country.
– The honorable member must withdraw that statement.
– I withdraw it if it is out of order, but the facts so appealed to me that I could not help uttering my protest. The honorable member for Wakefield asked what the cost of granting preference to unionists is to be. Have we not found, throughout the annals, of history, that the Government have been able to carry out works for themselves at far less cost than when they let them bycontract? I think I am quite correct in assuming, therefore, that the cost will not be so high as it has been in the past, when tenders were called for, and great public works were dealt with in the old way. The Leader of the Opposition says, in his motion, that the Government policy is unjust. Unjust to whom? Is it an injustice to give preference to the men who have borne the cost of establishing the unions? It has surprised me to hear honorable members opposite say that they are in favour of unionism and sympathize with unionists. I should like to ask what sort of unions they favour ? They would be only such as they could hobble and keep in subjection, like that which the honorable member for Parramatta led. As soon as the members of unions began to think for themselves our friends opposite decided to put them in their place. They would have nothing to do with what they, considered mock unionism. Recently I have been in a country where there is no unionism at all, where the workers have freedom of contract, and individualism is carried to an extreme. I refer to Ceylon, where men with scarcely any clothes on and who have to beg for a drink of water to quench their thirst, can be seen at work coaling the mail steamers at wages of about 1½d. per hour. That is individualism. That is the system honorable members opposite desire. It is because they desire the establishment of such a system that we find them opposing the preference to unionists which the Government propose to extend to deserving men to-day. What have the Government done in this matter? In my opinion, they have, by their action, averted a great strike, not only in Melbourne, but, perhaps, in other parts of the Commonwealth. The majority of the men who are working in the Government service to-day as casual hands are unionists, and do honorable members opposite believe that they are going to work side-by-side with non-unionists ? Of course, they will not. Unionists will strike to compel their employer, whether it be the Government or a private individual, to employ only unionists. All the big companies operating in Australia at the present time give preference to unionists. I belong to that great union, the Waterside Workers of Australia, and represented the union in conference with the members of the Ship-owners Union. What did we do in conference to bring about industrial peace ? One honorable member on the other side has told us that during the year ended 30th June last there were no less than seventy-five strikes in Australia. I can inform him that if we had not conferred, as we did, with the ship-owners of Australia, there would have been another, and the seventy-sixth would have been one of the biggest strikes that ever occurred in this country. We deliberated day after day and secured an agreement which was satisfactory to 10,000 men in the Waterside Workers Union, and also to the ship-owners of Australia. We secured practical preference to unionists, because the shipping companies would not dare, at the present time, to give employment in the unloading of any of their ships to non-unionists. When so good an example is set by private companies, surely the Government can do no wrong in following it. I was not supported during my election campaign with the money of any recognised union, and, so far as I know, unionists did not contribute a shilling towards my electioneering expenses, though I admit that unionists were members of the political party supporting me; yet I stated from the platform that I was in favour of preference to unionists, and that I had no time for the men who would stand out of a union, and allow their fellow-workers to fight the battle for better wages and conditions, and then step in and reap the benefit of their efforts. I said that the action of these men reminded me of the Canadian who went into the far west and took an excellent woman with him. One day in winter a huge bear approached the cabin as the couple were eating their dinner. The man climbed a ladder to a loft and left the woman to get up as best she could. After some time the man induced the woman to go down the ladder again, and she seized a pitchfork and put the bear to flight. A friend, arriving at the time, congratulated her upon her courage. By this time the man had climbed down from the loft, and turning to his wife he said, “ Did not we do it well, Betty ? “ When the unionist has fought the battle and secured improved wages and conditions, the non-unionist turns to him and says, “ Did not we do it well?” Honorable members opposite talk a great deal about the liberty of the individual. What is the liberty of the individual ? When, under our economic system, lands, machinery, tools, and every means of production are in the hands of the capitalists, what is the liberty of the individual ? He has liberty only to starve. We cannot see that in this bright Australia of ours. But what has individualism done for the people of the Old World? We are told that unionism has been kept clear of politics in the Old Country, but what has unionism been able to do there? It has been able to help but a very few indeed of the great population to be found there. As a re- suit of the individualistic system, advocated by our honorable friends opposite, we find, in Great Britain, such men as the late Sir Henry CampbellBannerman, Mr Balfour, and Mr. Bryce, the “British Ambassador at New York, disputing as to whether 8,000,000, 12,000,000, or 13,000,000, of the workers in that country are always on the verge of starvation. Our honorable friends opposite talk of liberty, and ask us to leave things as they are. Why? Because they desire to take from the worker the product of his labour. Two hundred years ago Adam Smith wrote in book 1, chapter 8, of his great work, The Wealth of Nations-
The produce of labour constitutes the only recompense or wages of labour.
We are’ asking for a recognition of that at the present time, when, under our economic conditions, the capitalist is taking twothirds of the produce of the unfortunate worker. The worker can only look for redress by joining a union. He will do so if he is shown the benefits of that, and the only way in which they can be demonstrated is by giving preference to unionists. That will bring men into the unions, and then we can hope for industrial peace. Those who support the. capitalistic system are naturally opposed to unionism, because by that means the worker may hope to get something near what he is entitled to. This is so because the capitalists make their fortune by taking the produce of the toil of the worker. 1 admit that we have captains of labour, but we also have the capitalist. It is that capitalist to whom I am opposed on every occasion. It is that capitalist who is behind honorable members opposite, who claim to enjoy such liberty and freedom. They speak aS if riches were absolute. As a matter of fact, the art of growing rich under their system consists, not merely in accumulating the guineas, but in keeping the workmen poor. They wish to have two men always running after the one sovereign, so that they may be able to make that sovereign more valuable by getting more work done for it. That is the problem with which we are confronted at the present time. It has been said that we wish to bludgeon the capitalist, and that we do not desire industrial peace. But, if honorable members will refer to page 841 of Hansard of last session, they will find that the pioneer of unionism in Australia, in the person of the honorable member for Darling, has affirmed that the strike is a barbarous method of settling industrial grievances. Every unionist leader to whom I have listened has always desired industrial peace. That is why the first Industrial Arbitration Court established in New South Wales, upon which the honorable member for South Sydney occupied a seat, was such a pronounced success. The members of that Court possessed all the requisite facilities for acquiring the knowledge necessary to enable them adequately to discharge their functions. That tribunal expired by effluxion of time, after having been in existence for six years. It possessed a power with which our Wages Boards are not armed, namely, the power to call for the production of the books of a firm with a view to ascertaining its profits, so that it might .be in a position to decide whether or not that firm was doing justice to its employes. That Court was a complete success. Not one of its awards was ever questioned. But the Government of New South Wales wiped it out of existence, and the result is that to-day we have strikes all along the line. I believe in the principle of preference to unionists, and I shall support the Government, because I recognise that they are merely giving effect to one of the planks of our platform. I credit them with being too wise to attempt to do something which is unconstitutional. If the granting of a preference to unionists in the case of temporary employes of our Public Service be not unconstitutional, then the Government have a perfect right to introduce that principle. I regret to say that one honorable member libelled those employes last night by affirming that they would retire from their work the moment an ordinary shower occurred. Let him go to the building which is being erected at the rear of the Treasury, and he will see that his statement is wrong. Why do not unionists cease work the moment a shower comes on? Because they realize that they are shareholders in this great Commonwealth - because they recognise that if they rob it they will suffer. Their leaders teach them that if they get short hours and good conditions they must do a good day’s work in return, otherwise the entire fabric will fall to the ground, and they will suffer even more acutely than will the capitalist. It has been urged that unionist leaders advocate strikes for the purpose of bringing about a civil war. Do honorable members opposite recollect the coal miners’ strike in New South Wales, when the Attorney-General stood almost alone, and when his efforts prevented that trouble from extending to the whole of the waterside workers of Australia ? Does not that incident serve to show that unionism is a good thing for the country, and that preference to unionists is also a good thing? The only way in which men can be got into the unions is by granting this preference. I have met many employers who prefer to deal with a union rather than with individuals. As a result of unionism I have been able to turn down every man who has approached me with any grievance since I have been a member of this House. I have been able to say to him, ‘ 1 Send your complaint along through your union, and I will look into it.” What prompted me to adopt that attitude ? The recognition that a union would not send along any twopenny-halfpenny grievance - that it will make representations on any matter only if there is substantial reason for doing so. It has been argued that the granting of a preference to unionists would inflict injury upon men who wish to secure temporary employment in our Public Service. I contend that it will do no such thing. The Minister will not know the applicants for employment individually. His responsible officer will only require to be told whether they possess their union tickets. Will honorable members opposite tell me that, under the old system, a man who was without political influence had just as much chance of securing a job as did the man who had political influence? Certainly not. I am in possession of facts which, if related to the House, would astonish honorable members.
– Remember what was done in New South Wales.
– Yes. A gentleman told me that he had been simply a casual hand under a Conservative Government in New South Wales. He retired from the service, and contested a seat in the State Legislature. Being defeated, he returned to his job, and was engaged by the foreman. But a few days later the foreman received instructions to turn him off. Why? Because the man had insisted on the exercise of that political freedom which the Labour party, as soon as they got into power, insured to the public servants. I know of another case in which a gentleman in Tasmania was chiefly instrumental in bringing out a candidate. When that candidate got into Parliament, he went back upon his principles, and the man who had brought him out opposed him at the next election. He was a contractor. The Braddon Government came into power in Tasmania. Contracting work was stopped, and the system of daily Government work was commenced. This contractor gave up his business, and was engaged as an officer under the Government, holding an important position. He did good work and remained in the service between fifteen and twenty years. When the gentleman to whom I have referred came into office - and I am sorry to refer to him, because he has gone from this world - he did not dismiss this man ; but he gave a hint to the head of a certain Department, and that official never rested until the man was pushed out of the service.
– Why not bury this motion ? It is dead.
– I quote this case to show the kind of thing that occurred under the old system, which honorable members opposite hold up as perfect, but which, as a matter of fact, was far inferior to the system that the Government are carrying out at the present time. I have very great pleasure in supporting the Ministry, notwithstanding all that has been said by honorable members opposite.
.- The last two speeches which have been delivered from the Government side of the House are fairly typical of the attitude adopted by what appear to be the two parties within the Ministerial ranks in relation to this matter. The honorable member for Bourke is absolutely uncompromising. He takes up the extreme position adopted by the Minister of Home Affairs. The honorable member for Denison, on the other hand, is of the other party, and keeps as far away from this ticklish subject as he possibly can. Not a single member on the Government side, with the possible exception of the honorable member for Bourke, has thrown very much enthusiasm into the discussion of this matter. They have all been rather apologetic, rather diffident, in coming to close quarters. As a matter of fact, they have talked at large on matters relating to unionism in general rather than about the particular issue indicated by the motion of the Leader of the Opposition. I do not think that any one who has any knowledge of industrial history has a word to say against trade unionism as it has been developed in the past. Those acquainted with that history must know that unionism was created, not so much by the working classes themselves, as by the efforts of those who belong to another class altogether. Some of them gave their lives to this work in order to enable the working classes to obtain that power by which they could combine without incurring penalties under the law.
– Who were they? Name them.
– I do not wish to go into details upon this point; but probably the honorable member will recollect the name of Francis Place, and others of the school of Radicalism which flourished in his time. These were the men to whom the beginnings of unionism, at all events, were due-
– That is what I do not understand.
– We have advanced a very great distance, indeed, from the time when poor wretches were sent to penal servitude for attempting to combine for the purpose of raising wages. This development of unionism is due in a general way to the evolution of what I may call the social conscience of the community, which has been characteristic of modern civilization. It was because the community as a whole sympathized with the efforts of the workers to improve their position that unionism has gained its present strength. The Labour movement in Australia has attained to power, not on account of unionism pure and simple, whether industrial or political ; but on account of the active sympathy which it received from those who have been - industrially, at any rate - outside the Labour movement altogether. The present Government were put into power largely by the votes of electors who believed that they were establishing a Government that would be true to the best traditions of the Labour movement - that they would act altogether apart from class considerations - that they would do that which was best for the community in general, and would not favour any particular section more than another. The Government, and the party behind it, have chosen to disregard those expectations. There is no doubt whatever that the next general election will make a very great difference indeed in the representation of the people in the Federal Parliament.
– That will please the honorable member, will it not?
– I do not say that it will please me altogether. I should be sorry to see some of my honorable friends opposite absent from this House. I am quite satisfied that when we deal with matters that are to some extent apart from party politics, there is none of the honorable members who support the Government but can render good service indeed to their country. Honorable members opposite profess that the action of the Minister of Home Affairs is a step in the direction of strengthening trade unionism. I wish to point out that there has been, with one or two insignificant exceptions, a very remarkable silence on the part of trade unionists as a whole. We do not hear of any enthusiastic meetings having been held, or any great number of resolutions having been passed, approving of the action of the Government. There has been a resolution passed here and there; but if I know trade unionism at all, and do not misrepresent the minds of the men with whom I have been associated for many years, even a majority of them look with a considerable amount of hesitation and alarm at this last action of the Labour Government. To the activity of unionists, in politics I do not think that any one- can offer an objection. To political unionism there can be no exception taken, so long as it is carried on in a legitimate way.
– Ah ! Legitimate way !
– I am going to explain to honorable members what I consider is fair and legitimate in this connexion. We have undoubtedly the most democratic franchise that the world has yet known. Each adult in the community has equal power; each adult has an equal right to use that political . power in a method which has been arranged for him under Federal legislation. It is perfectly legitimate for a unionist, or a number of unionists, to put proposals before the country in the ordinary way, so that they may be either accepted or rejected. It is usual at election time, when any matter of moment is in the minds of people, that it shall be made public, and criticised or defended, as the case may be. I have made a careful inquiry in connexion with the last election, and failed to discover a single instance in which the question of giving preference to unionists by administrative act in the Public Service was even so much as hinted at. Why was it not brought forward by the Government in the usual way ? Why was not some proposition moved? Why were the Parliament and the people of Australia kept in the dark on the subject ? Very much to the surprise of all honorable members in this House, we find out, as the honorable member for Werriwa let us know last night, that other Ministers besides the Minister of Home Affairs have taken action in this direction. Why was it done in secret ? Why was it kept from the public? Why was it that even, apparently, members of the Labour party knew nothing nt all about the matter? These things carry their own condemnation with them. I feel sure that, had Ministers no doubt about the propriety of their action, it would have been made public and above-board in the usual way. Neither to the press nor to the Parliament was any indication given regarding the action of the Postmaster-General. It is highly significant that such should have been the case.
– The honorable member is getting very much publicity now ; what more does he want?
– There is no doubt that thi* matter is getting a fair amount of publicity, and an amount of publicity, too, which my honorable friend and his colleagues, do not like.
– We do like it.
– I feel sure that most of the members on the other side, in their endeavours to cover up the tracks of the Minister of Home Affairs would be only too glad if they were something else. I ami not one of those who regard this matter of itself as being of very serious import to the welfare of Australia. I do not think that an v Minister, even if he took this power to himself, would dare to use it in any but the very gentlest fashion. I am quite satisfied, indeed, that if extraordinary pressure had not been brought to bear on Ministers, they would not have touched the matter at all. It is just here where we put our finger on trie sore. It is just here where the danger to the community lies. Ministers - not in consultation with the members of their party, but by reason of certain influences brought to bear on them - took this step which, we can see perfectly well from their apologetic attitude, none of them half likes..
– The honorable member knows that, it was on our platform at the last election.
– No. I deny that this particular matter was on the platform of the Labour party at the last election, or was even discussed. “ Preference to unionists “ on their platform has reference merely to preference under an Act of Parliament, and has nothing to do with the power taken in this secret fashion by Ministers without letting the Parliament or the people into their confidence. This is. something entirely different from any preferencewhich in the past has been talked about;, or even suggested, in connexion with the Labour movement. I do not think that I would put this action down even to trade unionism. I do not believe that, if trade unionism had been left without certain sinister influences which are operating upon it, the average trade unionist would have asked for anything of the kind. It is because trade unionism is being made a cat’spaw by certain individuals for ends and purposes of their own that we are discussing this matter. It is a fact that trade unionism, having become a political power, is sought to be used by certain individuals who desire to be in a position similar to that which is occupied by honorable members on the opposite side.’ We can easily understand that where a man has designs on trade unionism in a political sense, where a man wants to utilize that force for his own advantage and glory, he makes himself as popular as possible with those whose assistance he will want by-and-by to secure a nomination to Parliament. Accordingly, it is not trade unionism - honest trade unionism - that has brought about this action by the Government. It is due to the few who seek to use trade unionism in a manner which is neither honest nor admirable, and which, taken in its essence, is highly objectionable to the best interests of the Commonwealth. We can remember that the Ministry were not in office very long before certain individuals professing to represent trade unionism approached them with a suggestion that something more should be done to place some of their supporters in positions. There was not very much said about the matter at the time. I do not think that Ministers, publicly, at any rate, gave these people much encouragement. But a little while ago there was a meeting, which was not open to the press, between Ministers and evidently some persons of that type, and I suppose that this movement on the part of the Minister of Home Affairs is the upshot of the meeting ; at least, we may fairly conclude that it is so. We have no knowledge of what transpired then ; but I feel certain that, had not these influences been brought to bear upon Ministers in this particular .fashion, we would not be discussing this motion. I do not desire to take up much time. The subject has been approached from nearly all points of view; and I can only express my regret that Ministers have gone out of their way to bring about a new departure in the Labour movement. For many years that movement was supposed to be a fight against the influence of class, both in legislation and in administration. It was taken by men like myself as a movement of the broadest humanitarian character. But this departure is highly significant, and will, I believe, be so regarded throughout the length and breadth of Australia, of the fact that Labour has fallen in the slough - the very slough that, in the past, Labour people have pointed out as something we ought to guard against. The movement has become, as the honorable member for Bourke nakedly and unashamed declared on the floor this afternoon, a class movement - the Labour Government is a class Government now. The action of Ministers referred to in the motion we are now discussing is proof of that fact; and I am sorry that this is so. Th’is is the beginning of a process of demoralization and ruin which will overtake the Labour movement in Australia. It is the introduction of the methods of Tammany into Australian politics; and I do not believe that the people of Australia will tolerate it.
.- It is not often that I take up the time of the House, and I do not intend to take up much today. I feel, however, that I must declare my attitude in relation to the motion now before us. Let me say at once that I support whole-heartedly the proposal of this Administration to give preference to unionists. The honorable member for Perth referred to the possibility of a slough, or some decadence in the industrial life of the country, or in the Labour movement of Australia. I feel perfectly satisfied, however, that there is nothing in the nature of a decadence or a sloughing in connexion with the proposal now before the country. I say unhesitatingly that since the introduction of the Labour party and the labour element into the politics of Australia, whether in Commonwealth or State, the whole political atmosphere has been purged, cleansed, and purified.
– Is this preference going to keep it pure?
– I venture to say that it will keep it pure.
– Will it make it more pure ?
– Imbued as we are with a desire for purity in public life, I feel that the proposal of the Government will tend to make public life more pure. I need not refer to the motion ; but there are one or two other matters dealt with in the speech of the honorable member for Ballarat to which I desire to call attention. That honorable member said -
The motion is specific and direct. There can be no question as to its terms or the grounds on which I shall commend it to honorable members. It will not be necessary for me to detain the House with any consideration in respect to trade unions as such. They are accepted by all parties in the country as necessary portions of our industrial machinery.
I accept that ; and the moment it is accepted, we discount the position of the nonunionist outside. How has trade unionism become a necessary portion of the industrial machinery of this, or any other country? Who has conceded that position to trade unionism? No one. Never in the history of trade unionism, when any efforts were made to benefit the interests of the workers, has there not been most persistent and determined opposition? To-day, however, when, by force, we have formed our organizations - when we have obtained our object in spite of all opposition - it is recognised that trade unionism is a necessary portion or adjunct of the industrial life of the country. Then, according to the Age, with which, I believe, the Leader of the Opposition was associated for many years, the honorable gentleman spoke as follows -
Their indispensable character is recognised all the more clearly because they are only indispensable, and really only fruitful, when strictly confined to their legitimate sphere.
This utterance, I observe, was greeted with Opposition cheers. But what is the legitimate sphere of any body of men who choose to combine, as a trade union, or in any otherway? We may, of course, in an academic way, split up our social life into affairs of hygiene, eugenics, politics, industrialism, education, or religion, and we may apply our intelligence and ability to the examination and understanding of each. But with our English traditions of trade unionism, are we to be hampered in our industrial sphere ? Does the Leader of the Opposition claim to be in a position to determine precisely the sphere of trade unionism? The separation of the affairs of life in the academic way I have suggested is something entirely apart from the rights of an organized body of men, who, with the traditions of their race behind them, are face to face with the increasing complexities of modern life. We cannot be limited - that is the point. Society is now so complex that we cannot say that there is here or there any clear-cut line of demarcation..
Trade-union’ matters, industrial matters, and political and economical matters blend and merge into one another. This is an expression of an evolutionary growth which makes a clear line of demarcation impossible. The honorable member for Ballarat said, that, unless there were a division, political or industrial, evil would arise. I forget his exact words, but that was his meaning.
– Hear, hear !
– I feel that ‘that is not so. The wider the association of industrial organizations, the broader the sphere of operations, the greater the extension of functions and the development of mental processes the better. The spiritual effect of trade unionism will not be evil, and it will not be ml. On the contrary, it will be of great value to the community.
– A trade union for industrial purposes, a political union for political purposes, a religious union for religious purposes !
– I differ from trie honorable gentleman. Industrial and. political questions are so closely interwoven that they cannot be dissociated. Honorable members opposite would like to establish a divisional line, but that is impossible. Those whom we represent know it to be impossible. They are travelling on the path which leads to success.
– To specialize, and not to confuse, is a necessary condition of development.
– Is specialization in opposition to confusion? May there not be coordination? We are co-ordinating the industrial and the political, throwing them together, and utilizing them for our own purposes, along democratic lines. In addition to specialization there is coordination. The study of sociology, and the general understanding of social conditions, shows that co-ordination is at the base of the national life, and of the association of nations which makes a civilization.
– Unless you have separate industrial and political unions, you have nothing to co-ordinate. The Labour party is confusing what should be separate.
– I do not think so. Today the old trade-union methods are not enough, and we realize the need for reform. I have been connected with a union for twenty-five or thirty years, and know that to-day, despite Conservative influences, there is a movement towards the combination of political and industrial ends which cannot be checked. It is asked, “ Why should preference be given to unionists ? !! That is the essential question which we are discussing, to which I shall address myself directly and briefly. I view a unionist as an individual who has trained himself in the art of mutual aid. He is a man .associated with his fellows, and, in the best possible sense of the term, a citizen.
– A good citizen.
– A very good citizen. In the individualist, on the contrary, I see the anarchist, the selfish - I shall not say the soulless - person, the man lacking a sense of order and proportion, not recognising the need for regulation to which Parliament gives expression in making laws for the good government of the country. How, then, can exception be taken to the giving of preference to unionists ? We have heard, in connexion with the scheme of Imperialism - to which, let me say at once, I object, though I hold to Empire association - the statement made repeatedly by public men. and in the press, that we are part and parcel of the Empire, and it is asked. “ Can we receive from Great Britain the assistance and the defence which she offers, and give nothing in return ? ‘ ‘ The whole spirit and purpose of the answer is, “ No. We are prepared to give something in return. We are prepared to associate with you, to combine with you, for a common result that will benefit the whole Empire.” Is not that precisely the position of unionists? We have borne the heat and burden of the day, not for years, but for a century or two. The non-unionist who follows the same trade or calling takes advantage of every effort put forward by the unionist, but assists in no way, makes no pecuniary sacrifice, and is ready always to become a tool in the hands of those opposed to unionism. For over twenty-five years I have paid about £5 a year, as a member of a trade union. For what ? To improve the conditions of the trade at which I work, and, further than that, to improve the conditions of all who work for their living.
– Is it a reason for compelling every man to join a friendly society that I have paid into the funds of a friendly society for many years?
– If the honorable member has paid into the funds of a friendly society, he, and he alone, will reap the benefits which the society offers. But when I pay into the funds of a trade union, every non-unionist lives on my brain and my purse, and benefits by my efforts and sacrifice. I have paid into the funds of a. trade union, for what ? To benefit myself ? Undoubtedly. To benefit the members of my organization? Undoubtedly. Further than that, I have paid to benefit all trade unionists, and, still more, to benefit those who are not trade unionists, but ought to be. Week after week, and month after month, I have made efforts to get these people to recognise that their interests lie in a closer association with their fellows, and that organization on the one side and organization on the other offers the best way to attain, not peace, but betterment, where betterment is necessary.
– And the betterment the honorable member and his party have secured for them has come from all sections of the community.
Mi. HOWE.- I simply beg to differ from my honorable friend. I have done this, and what have I found? To show the type of men one has to meet in connexion with this work, let me cite a recent experience. About two years ago, I went to Newcastle and took up the cases of about thirty-four non-unionists. I won twenty-five, with the result that the nonunionists whom -we had lifted from 8s. to about 10s. per day were the very first to demand, when I was paying their expenses, 10s. instead of 8s. a day. When subsequently I held a meeting at the expense of my society, and urged these nonunionists to join our ranks, out of about 200 present I succeeded in inducing the magnificent number of ten to throw in their lot with our organization, which had spent about ^250 in defending them and in increasing their wages. In the face of such conditions, what can be said against preference to unionists? I put it that preference to unionists is neither more nor less than a payment for services rendered. I make that statement deliberately, and on that conception of the position I am voting to-day. Trade unionists are the one body of men in the industrial world who have built up the ideal of collective bargaining. As the result of their efforts, an individual, instead of having to approach an employer with his cap off his head, shabbily clothed, unclean in every aspect, and almost begging for the right to exist, finds that he has some status. As the outcome of trade unionism, we have to-day an organized body of workers, every union known by its name, every union boasting dignity and self-respect, and every member of a union observing the rules, regulations, and principles underlying it. They stand to-day fine specimens of humanity, clearer-brained and more purposeful than ever before. In doing this we have done the best that could be done in connexion, with the great development that has taken place. It is useless for any one to speak to-day of individual effort in connexion with employment. This is a day of collectivism on the one side as well as ora the other. Employes must associate with employes, employers with employers, and if, in the course of time, we are confronted with situations that cannot well be met, that demand some further analysis, ‘ we have perforce to adopt other methods. We are here to-day face to face with that situation, and, inasmuch as we, as trade unionists, have borne the heat and burden of the day, inasmuch as we have paid, through the long years, for this collectivism in our industrial life, it is fair and reasonable that we should have, even in connexion with the administration of the country, some preference when work is to be done. I have heard honorable members in this House speak of industrial peace. I am concerned, not with industrial peace, but with industrial justice. If I cannot get that, I am out for industrial strife. That is my declaration, clean cut and clear marked. If I can by conciliation, or arbitration, or by. any other lawful process to prevent strife, attain what we desireat.tain some measure of justice, some measure of decency - I will accept it. But, if I cannot, then I am out for some other method whereby I can attain it.
– Attain it honestly.
– Honesty is on this side all the time; dishonesty has been for centuries on the side represented by the honorable member and his party. We are honestly entitled to that which we claim to-day. We are out to fight for it, and this is one of the first steps we have taken. I stand by the proposals of the Government, and I shall be glad to fight for them in some other situation if that should prove necessary.
.- I deprecate very much some of the language that has been used during this debate. If there is one thing that I have tried more than another to avoid during the whole of my life, it is the stirring up of strife as between employer and employ^. But, from both sides of this House during the present debate, there has been used language that would tend to cause a renewal of that hatred which in industrial matters I should like to see swept completely away. It would ill become me, after some quarter of a century spent in trying to organize a section of the community, to say anything detrimental to industrial unions. I believe that every body of persons having identity of interests have a right to unite in order to better their position in a reasonable way; but when unjust means are resorted to, one has a right to complain. It appears to me that the Government, in their present attitude, are resorting to compulsion Trade unionists have preached and advocated the benefits of unionism for a number of years. The honorable member who has just resumed his seat says that he has done so for the last twenty-five years. The unions have invited the whole of the industrial classes of Australia to partake of their great feast of unionism ; but, finding that they are not making the headway that they ought to do upon their own merits, they say to the Government, “ You must give preference to unionists, and in that way force people to join unions.”
– Unionism has made more headway than any other organization during the last ten years.
– In view of the most recent figures obtainable - and I admit that it is very hard to secure reliable figures on this question - I am inclined to doubt the honorable gentleman’s statement. The figures show that about one-third of the industrial workers of the Commonwealth belong to unions.
– The strength of our party should be a good indication of the figures.
– The strength of that side is no criterion whatever. If the heads of those who put them there were counted it would be found that they were in a minority.
– How then did we get here ?
– More votes were cast for honorable members on this side than on that. The Government, by their action, appear to be going out into the highways and hedges, and compelling all sorts and classes of people to enter unions, which, up to the present, I have always regarded as industrial or trade unions, into which men were admitted, either because of their identity of interests, or by reason of their capabilities as tradesmen. I hope the day will never come in Australia when the standard of any trade union will be reduced because of the deficiencies of its members. By some marvellous twist on the part of the Government we have been given a new definition of the word ‘ ‘ absolute.” In his circular the Minister of Home Affairs said that “ absolute preference “ was to be given to unionists, but the Prime Minister has since told the House that the Minister of Home Affairs meant exactly what he did - that preference was to be given “ all other things being equal.” If the Government are going to force the working classes to become members of unions, with which they do not, perhaps, desire to associate themselves, I fail to see how they can complain of what they are pleased to term combines, on the . other side, when employers of labour happen to unite to protect their own interests. Such unions are described by members of the Ministerial party as combines or monopolies, or other names are applied which are calculated to hurt the feelings of those who belong to them. I have not a word to say against the right tactics of unions. One might find fault with some of the actions of trade unions, just as it is quite possible to find fault with many of the actions of employers. I contend that men should be allowed to exercise the utmost freedom.
– They must obey the law.
– We must all obey the law, but if the law is wrong, the first duty of members of this House is to make it right. I think honorable members opposite will admit that coercion is often used by industrial bodies, so that a fair expression of opinion is not always given by those who are interested. Not long ago there was a strike of builders’ labourers in Brisbane, and the whole of the building trade of Brisbane was paralyzed in consequence. The unions were asked to take an open vote as to whether they should resume work or not. In putting the question the chairman said, “ All those that are good unionists go to the left, and all scabs go to the right.”
– Was the honorable member present at the meeting?
– No, but it was the President of the Master Builders that told me this. The meeting was not a caucus one, but was open to the public, and I vouch for that having taken place. The Government, before granting preference, might well look into the question of whether union funds are properly administered. I have been a member of a friendly society for about thirty years, and in that time have paid in contributions in order to obtain certain benefits in the shape of sick pay and medical attendance. During the whole of that period the friendly societies in every State of the Commonwealth have been subject to the control of the law, and their books have been open for inspection. On one or two occasions our contributions were raised in response to a demand from the Registrar of Friendly Societies, but the unions can go on imposing any penalties they like, and charging any entrance fees or subscriptions that they please, their books not being open to any inspection.
– They make a return to the Registrar in New South Wales.
– Are their books audited by a Government inspector?
– The books must be kept and audited in accordance with the direction of the Government inspector.
– I am pleased to learn that that is so in at least one State, but before this partisan administrative act is put into force, we should see that the whole of the unions’ funds are properly audited- by a person authorized for the purpose. The books’ of all industrial unions, whether of employers or employes, should be open to a thorough inspection. We should separate political from industrial unions. I do not object to honorable members opposite having their political unions. We, on this side, have ours, and they do good work for us, and honorable members opposite have theirs, which do good work for them. The honorable member for New England the other night referred to the farmers and agriculturists and other rural employers uniting. I am very pleased to see that the trend of affairs at present is towards co-operation amongst agriculturists and dairymen. One of ray last acts in Queensland was to take the chair at a meeting at which a number of farmers formed a union for their own protection. It is a rural employers union, and no doubt a little later on we shall hear that it is bumping up against a rural workers union. But it is only fair that the rural employers, as well as the rural workers, should unite. I notice that since this union was formed, some of the leaders of the party opposite in Queensland have made reference to it at gatherings of their clans, and have directed the attention of their friends to the fact that the farmers were uniting, not only to defend themselves against any action which might be taken by rural workers, but actually ‘’”’ in order to put up prices.” As soon as the rural employers unite, a howl goes up from the workers, and they complain that “ these monopolists “ have united for the purpose of putting up prices. If there i; any one who deserves consideration, it is the man who toils, net eight hours a day, butoften from daylight to dark, in order to make a living from the land. I deprecate very much the glorious gospel of discontent that is so often preached by members of the Ministerial party, when men are doing well, and have no cause to complain.
– What does the honorable member mean by “doing well”?
– Most men know when they are doing well. I do not object to any one trying to better his position, no matter what it may be. I should not object to the honorable member for Capricornia trying to better his present position by seeking employment elsewhere. I should, in fact, be pleased if the honorable member succeeded in doing so, so long as he did so in a straightforward and honorable way.
– Which, of course, goes without saying.
– I certainly should not. like to. accuse the honorable member of any dishonorable action.
– I think the honorable member for Moreton is doing well.
– I have always been satisfied with my lot. I have done what I could to improve my position, but have always acted in an honorable and straightforward way. I have never taken an advantage of a man merely because I felt I had some power over him. I hope that a proper spirit in these matters will influence not only members of this House, but members of the industrial community. When I see nien striking because their employer is in a fix, I consider their action most contemptible. I think there should be some sense of honour amongst workers, as there is amongst most employers, and that they should not ask for better conditions when the “ boss “ may be forced through circumstances to concede them, but at a time when he would be able to make provision to meet their demands.
– Then the honorable member thinks, also, that the “ boss “ has no right to reduce wages when he finds two men offering for one job?
– I do not think the Minister has any right to try to put such words into my mouth.
– I asked whether the honorable member believes in that?
– I believe that the “boss” has a right to get the very best labour he can. I am very pleased to say that the trend of affairs now is not so much in the direction of unionism, as understood by our honorable friends opposite, as in an entirely different direction. I believe a new era is likely to develop from present industrial difficulties, when the employes will become members of the firms conducting the industries in which they are engaged, and will themselves have an interest in the success of the business. That is the kind of unionism I advocate.
– Yes, co-operation ; a system under which the employes may share the benefits of production with the employers.
– The honorable member ought to come over here.
– I have weighed the matter carefully, and have decided that over there is no place for me at present. The movement to which I have just referred is taking definite shape, even in Queensland, at the present time. Only a day or two ago I was speaking to a gentleman from Brisbane who was over here making inquiries in connexion with the matter. He told me that it is his intention to turn his business into a limited liability company, giving all the employe’s who have been with his firm for a certain period an interest in it; and that he hopes to step out of it in the course of a few years.
– The trouble with the workers as a rule is that they cannot get a fair share of the profits of a business.
– I fail to see how the action the Government are taking in this matter will give the workers a share in the profits. It seems to me that it will only serve to introduce into the service a partisan spirit, and is the beginning, I will not say of corruption, but of something which is as near as it possibly can be to the political corruption which we understand is very rife in America as a result of the adoption of the doctrine of “spoils to the victors.” Another important question has to be decided in connexion with this matter. We should decide whether the business of the Commonwealth is to be carried on in this building in Spring-street, or in a building in Lygon-street. I have noticed that no definite move was taken in this matter until directions were received from the Trades Hall. Then the Government began to move in the matter.
– The Postmaster-General made the move in last May.
– Then he must have received instructions to do it before last May. I do not wish to introduce a discordant note into this debate, but I do regret that the Government have exhibited anything in the nature of a partisan spirit. They can scarcely complain if their action is bitterly resented, as I am sure, it will be, by a large number of persons who favour individual freedom. I have no sympathy with the man who seeks to better his position at the expense of unionism, but who obstinately refuses to contribute to union funds. If unions are conducted as they should be, I am sure there will be ample inducement offered to good men to join their ranks. But if the principle of preference to unionists is to be put into general operation - I am not now referring to its probable effect on the temporary employes of our Public Service-
– Nobody will be injured by its application at present.
– If that is to be the policy of the Government I have no hesitation in saying that it will result in a lowering of the standard of efficiency. Personally, I have never belonged to a union of any kind. I have had to submit to a little squeezing on the part of employes, and to a fair amount of squeezing on the part of employers. I have had experience of both sides of this question.
– Which is the better?
– There is not much to choose between them. The employer will squeeze a man for his own benefit, and the employes will squeeze him from pure cussedness. In conclusion, I am entirely opposed to the granting of preference to unionists in any shape or form, and therefore I shall vote for the motion.
– I do not quarrel with the Leader of the Opposition for desiring to test the feeling of the House upon the wisdom or otherwise of the action of the Government in granting a preference to unionists. Nobody will deny that I have had a lifelong connexion with trade unionism. I have never regretted that circumstance. I hold that trade unionists are the only persons who have sought to emancipate from thraldom the workers of the world. Unionism is not confined to Australia. There is no place in the civilized industrial world in which it does not play an active part. Unionists are the true teachers of humanity, and they have always been in the forefront of every movement for bettering the condition of the people. They are the most unselfish persons on the face of the earth. There is not one movement with which they have been connected which has not benefited all sections of the community. The general prosperity of the world is a factor which improves the position of the millionaire, in addition to diminishing poverty. During the course of his remarks the Leader of the Opposition gave us some very sensible advice, and made certain statements to which no possible objection can be urged. But what struck me most forcibly was his admission that trade-union organizations are indispensable to our civilization. He was good enough to tell us that the old trade unionists were real men, whose example we might well emulate. He declared that unions in those days were not political organizations. I beg to differ from him, and make bold to say that he knows nothing about the question. In the year 1866 a big fight was waged in England in favour of granting a preference to unionists. At that time an outrage occurred, the importance of which I did not then appreciate. The great principle, the assertion of which was responsible for that outrage, is the principle which we are discussing to-day. The Sheffield grinders refused to work with non-unionists, and their action resulted in the appointment of a Royal Commission. There is no matter which has been the subject of so many Royal Commissions as that of the settlement of industrial disputes. Not one of those bodies has been able to solve the problem, or to do anything to check the onward march of the trade-union movement. Why do individuals become members of trade unions? They become members of unions to protect their trades - to make their occupations sure means whereby they could earn their own living, and provide for the support of their families and all those dear to them. I hold in my hand a little book written by a man who is hostile to unionism, but he gives an account of the Royal Commission to which I have referred, from which it will be desirable for me to quote. The
Commission embraced some of the master minds in Great Britain at that time. They included Sir William Erie, the Earl of Lichfield, Lord Elcho, who took a very active part in the political life of his time; Sir Edmund Walker Head, a great brewer, and a well-meaning man as well as prominent Church of England supporter; Sir Daniel Gooch, Mr. Herman Merivale, Mr. Roebuck, whose name is well known to all who have rea3 the history of modern England; Mr. James Booth, Mr. Thomas Hughes, Mr. Frederic Harrison, an eminent social reformer; and Mr. William Mathews. The object of the Commission was to solve some of the social problems with which England was then confronted. One of the witnesses examined was Mr. Charles Williams, general secretary of the Plasterers Society, which included over 8,000 members. Some of the members of the Commission wanted to know why working men joined trade unions, and accordingly the witness was examined by Mr. Roebuck, as follows -
What do you mean by “protection of trade”? -Protecting it in the same way as I would protect property.
That explains nothing - what do you mean? - Making the best of my property f can by all legal means.
That is protection of property, but what is “protection of trade ?”- Simply seeing that there are no undue encroachments upon it.
What do you mean by “ undue encroachments upon trade?” - A man taking away from me something he has no right to.
But I want to know, without illustrations, what your property here is? - 1 have learned a trade, that trade is my capital, and I have a right to protect .it.
Is there any capital in labour? - Is there nol? It is my capital.
That is as concise a statement of the position as can be found. A man’s trade is his capital. He combines to protect his trade. When a boy is apprenticed to a trade, he knows that that is to be his means of livelihood throughout life, and that it is his first interest to protect its interests. In just the same way a young man who enters a profession, whether he be an architect, a journalist, a lawyer, or a medical man, should recognise that it is his duty, as far as he can, to make it a dignified calling. Mr. Frederic Harrison examined the witness on the same point as follows: - “ Do you mean by ‘ protecting trade ‘ maintaining the old advantages, and endeavouring to acquire new advantages for the operative plasterers?” To which Mr. Williams readily replied, “ Yes, as near as that is possible.”
That passage shows how necessary it is for men to join organizations to protect their occupations. Throughout society, we find that the best of our citizens belong to organizations which concern, themselves with the trades and professions.
– We ought to have a Member of Parliaments union.
– I do not think that the honorable member wants a better union than that to which, as a lawyer, he belongs. The result of the report of this Royal Commission was that Liberals and Conservatives alike were very anxious to secure the assistance of trade organizations for their own political advantage.’ When the unionists discovered that an endeavour was being made to use them as tools by either side, they realized that the time had arrived when they should send their own representatives into Parliament. The result was that at the next Trade Union Congress, when nearly 2,000,000 members were represented, a Parliamentary Committee was established. Since 1869, some of the brightest intellects who have adorned the House of Commons have sprung from the working classes. These men did more to promote the interests of the people than had ever been done by the British Parliament. The Leader of the Opposition and honorable members on his side have been continually telling us that, in the past, labour unions were not political. They were forced to become political bodies when they discovered that they were being made tools of by both parties in the British Parliament. What was one of the chief reasons which led labour unions to form that resolution ? It was the recklessness of ship-owners in sending coffin-ships to sea. It was only with the greatest difficulty that Samuel Plimsoll succeeded in inducing the House of Commons, of which he was a member, to pass a provision requiring a load-line to be put on every ship going to sea. In my boyhood, I often heard Samuel Plimsoll address meetings of seamen in the East End of London, and expose the rascality and the brutal conduct of the ship-owners. It was only with the aid of the men whom the trade unions returned to the House of Commons. that he was able to secure that humanitarian legislation. He was assisted by men in whose honour, if they were passing down the street to-day, I would raise my hat. I refer to men like Burt, Fenwick, and Arch, who endeavoured to get the Parliament to pass a law preventing women from carrying coal-baskets on their heads. I have often seen women, with babies not a fortnight old at their breasts, employed in welding links foi small chains. Can honorable members forget the name of Mr. Broadhurst, the first secretary of the Parliamentary Committee in Great Britain? When I was secretary to my Council, in Sydney, in 1880, I opened up a correspondence with that gentleman, which I maintained for a number of years. We did our best to assist his efforts, because, at that time, he had a very small fund at his command. I, and those who came out with me to Sydney in the early seventies, knew Mr. Broadhurst, Mr. Fenwick, and the other men who laboured in England in the cause of humanity.
– Was there anything in the correspondence about preference to unionists ?
– I shall tell the honorable member something about preference, if he will wait a while. The great disputes in Australia and England have had no relation to wages. The leaders of trade unions; the men who, like myself, filled the positions of secretary and president for a number of years, never worried about a question of wages, because it could always be overcome. We concerned ourselves with matters of principle, such as eight hours for a day’s work, the proper protection for scaffolding and improved social conditions’. Above all things we detested having to work alongside a non-unionist. The greatest amount of forbearance has to be exercised by unionists when they find themselves associated with a non-unionist. The most serious trouble of all is the presence of a non-unionist on a job or in a shop. If a journeyman is working in a shop, he cannot look with any respect upon a man who will not associate with him and join his organization ; who will do nothing to better his condition. A non-unionist, to describe him properly, is nothing better than a mental abortion. It is not long since the men in the galleries who report our speeches found it necessary to organize and establish the “ Writers and Artists Association.” Can any honorable member think for a moment that the members of that union do not treat a unionist with greater respect than they do a non-unionist? When they retire from the galleries to their own rooms, will they not naturally desire to assist a man who has become a member of their union? It is not reasonable to expect that they would do anything else. The honorable member for Richmond asked for some information about the question before the House. The Fisher Government is not the first one in Australia which has carried out the principle of preference to unionists. It was carried out in New South Wales by a Government which included the late Honorable E. W. O’sullivan, and there is no person in the State who does not respect his memory. His first act when he became Minister of Public Works was to send for his officers and tell them that employes to carry out public works were to be members of trade unions, and that no one in the Department was to get less than 7s. per day. Some of those who sit on the other side of this House would, if they could have had their way, have howled Mr. O’sullivan out of public life. He carried out public works with day labour, and yet no disaster befell the State. It is admitted fey all persons that the Public Works Department got better value for its money during his regime than it obtained at any other period.
– This Government will meet with the same fate as the Government’ of which Mr. O’sullivan was a member met with.
– In the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales to-day there are men sitting on the Opposition side who would like to find another E. W. O’sullivan. Any one would imagine, from speeches delivered by honorable members opposite, that preference to unionists applied only to the ordinary labourer. The other day, however, a dispute as to a matter of accounts had to go before a Judge in Chambers, and I advised one of the parties interested not to go to law, because lawyers were such wretches that they were sure to “ take him down.” I ascertained that this person was prepared to make a compromise; and I then suggested that he should engage two chartered accountants who, as members of the Accountants Association, would prove perfectly satisfactory to the Judge. In another case having reference to the construction of a building, it was necessary to have the evidence of an architect, and, of course, on the principle of preference to unionists, the evidence of that architect was accepted. If there is one thing more than another on which a man in public life ought to pride himself, it is consistency. The other day I heard that the honorable member for Parramatta, when addressing the House, was making anxious inquiries about me ; and it struck me at the time that that honorable member had some years ago given evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject of trade unionism. The following is an extract from the evidence given by the honorable member before a Royal Commission of New South Wales in 1890 -
Are the western miners in a better position now then they were ten years’ ago? - Yes.
They have better wages and better hours? - Yes; better conditions generally.
Has that been due to the action of the unions? - Yes; entirely due to them.
That evidence was given on oath, and the honorable member for Parramatta was at that time secretary for the Lithgow Miners Association. We can well understand that the evidence was given from the bottom of his heart - if he has one - because there is no man in Australia who ought to be more thankful to the miners of this country than should the honorable member.
– Order !
– The honorable member was at that time in a very delicate state of health, and, on that account, was appointed check weighman.
– Order; the honorable member is going beyond the question.
– At any rate, the honorable member for Parramatta at that time stated that the benefits and improved conditions then enjoyed by the miners were solely due to the unions, and one of the duties of the position he then held was to see that every man before he started work was a. member of a union. That is not the attitude assumed by the honorable member to-day. It is no use our trying to burke the question of preference to unionists. Unionists will not work with non-unionists ; we might as well try to mix oil with water. They cannot amalgamate, and cannot have any mutual respect for each other. In fact, a non-unionist cannot become a good citizen. A unionist is able to debate, and see both sides of an industrial question, and deal with it in a judicial frame of mind.
Silting suspended from 6.30 to 7.45 p.m.
– I have here the report and minutes of evidence of a Royal Commission which sat in Sydney twenty years ago, before whom the honorable member for Parramatta gave his testimony as secretary to the Lithgow Miners Association. The honorable gentleman was crossexamined by Mr. Curley, a member of the Newcastle Miners Association, who was held in great respect. In reply to the questions put to him, the honorable gentleman gave answers which expressed his views concisely and directly, answers which were a credit to him. At the time he was watching the interests of those who were toiling for their living, and was well acquainted with their needs. I have no wish to prolong the discussion, but this evidence is so relevant, and so strongly supports the position of the Government, that I must read it. No doubt honorable members opposite will be electrified to ]earn that one of their number was a consistent trade unionist. The quotations which I propose to make will show how much they are in error in condemning the Government for what has been done in the present instance -
Are there any mines worked exclusively by non-unionists? - Not one. There is not a nonunionist in the district, except day wages men.
And it would not be allowed in any mine for a non-union man to work? - No, decidedly not.
We can imagine the emphasis and vigour with which that reply was given -
That would be a cause of strike? - Yes.
Did you ever know a dispute about working with non-unionists settled by a Conference? - No, I never saw the thing come to a crisis.
Do you think it might be settled by Conference? - I do not think it could.
Yet the honorable member now contends that a Court of Arbitration can settle all disputes and rectify all industrial wrongs -
Then that is one difficulty that lies outside the possibility of conference to settle? - Yes, that is where we draw the line.
We, on this side, say that, if preference is not given to unionists by the Government, they will not obtain employment in the Commonwealth service. As I said before, water and oil will not mix -
And even if there were a Government Board of Conciliation and Arbitration you could not settle that? - I am afraid not.
The honorable member knew that a unionist miner would not work with a nonunionist miner, because he would not have confidence in him. Could a miner be expected to work in a dangerous, gassy mine with a man in whom he had not confidence? Of course, he could not. Similarly, in other callings unionists will not work with non-unionists -
Except for that, all the minor conditions might be settled peaceably? - That is how it presents itself to my mind.
How do you think it is possible to settle it? - By making the non-unionists unionists.
To-day it is easier than it was twenty-one years ago to make non-unionists unionists. The opinions which I have just read were stated calmly and deliberately, and given, on oath ; they were not merely the statements of a man addressing a .meeting of miners. The people thought, when the Labour party got into power, that it would give effect to its principles. Bankers and other prominent citizens, who have met me in the street, have told me that, although they voted against Labour candidates, they .expect the Labour party to give effect to the’ principles on which they were elected. Here is another sentence -
Then, all men must come for employment through the unions? - Yes.
Ministers have not gone so far as that, though they would if I had my way. When the late E. W. O’sullivan -was Secretary of Public Works in New South Wales, he introduced the day-labour system, and saw that none but trade unionists were employed. If men were wanted by his Department, his officers rang up the union secretaries, and informed them of their requirements. There is no doubt that the best work ever done in New South Wales in connexion with the Public Works Department was that carried out whilst Mr. O’sullivan held office as Minister of Public Works. He was so certain that the best interests of the State would be served by placing in charge of such works as the new railway station officers of his Department, who belonged to a union, that he took care to appoint a unionist clerk of works. ,He knew that if the officers were with him, the men would get a fair deal. He had the work carried out under the day-labour system, and, in order that all concerned should get a fair deal, and that the building should be constructed as it ought to be, he always engaged his men through the agency of a union. The honorable member for Parramatta, in the report from which I have just quoted, said that all the men must go through the unions. Here is another extract from the evidence then given by him -
Then all men must come for employment through the unions?- Yes, but understand why I object, it is simply because a man offering himself at lower wages than those ruling menaces my position.
So in self defence you object to any man taking less wages than you? - Naturally.
If you would go so fat as to interfere with the man taking 9s., would you go so far as to use coercive measures to prevent him ?
To the last question, he replied -
I do not like coercive measures, but it is a fact that people get desperate sometimes.
We can all draw our own conclusions as to what the honorable member had in his mind when he said that the people were sometimes desperate. No doubt he was thinking of an occasion when something more than kid-glove measures were necessary. The position could not be better put, and I am glad that my memory was so good as to enable me to place my hands on this evidence, and to bring it before the House. All this is sworn evidence, and I am confident that the honorable member spoke the truth. All who know him will readily admit that in such circumstances he would speak nothing but the truth.
– The quotation which the honorable member has made is a fairly accurate description of things as they existed at that time.
– Certainly. I am not going to fall out with the honorable member about it. During this debate, reference has been made to the question of freedom of contract, a principle to which I strongly object. Let me put before the House the views expressed by the honorable member for Parramatta when giving evidence before this Commission upon that very question. His statement is precise and to the point. He was asked -
Do you think it necessary that the organizations of labour should not concede freedom of contract ?
He replied -
It means that if they conceded it in the form in which it is sought to be imposed, and as we understand it, no unionism could exist.
The honorable member then admitted that with freedom of contract in the form then proposed, and which honorable members opposite have been so heartily supporting, no unionism could exist. Freedom of contract means freedom to starve. The honorable member went on to say -
A contract is virtually no contract where a man has no say in the making of it and has simply the option of rejecting it.
No one could take exception to that statement, and it should be interesting to those who have convened a meeting to be held in the Melbourne Town Hall within the next few days to discuss this question. I am prepared to lend the conveners of that meeting a copy of this report, in order that they may learn for themselves what freedom of contract, according to the honorable member for Parramatta, actually means. This great city, which has made very rapid strides, is a credit to the people and the State, and trade organizations have taken an active part in bringing it to its present state of perfection. The honorable member for Parramatta had this further question put to him -
Do you see any fairness in a rouseabout going up to a squatter and seeking employment, and the squatter telling him his terms, which the man, having no food and no money, dare not refuse - can you conceive any equity in any contract that they may enter into?
To this he replied, “ No, there is not any.” The honorable member is quite right. Here, in two or three words, we have the whole position summed up. Reading these views, we must admit that the honorable member, when he uttered them, had a sound mind and a clear brain. I ask honorable members not to get excited about these quotations, for there are more to come. The honorable member was asked -
Do you believe that a man ‘in contracting with an employer is greatly influenced by the amount of money he has at command?
His answer was, “ Yes, and the state of his stomach.” There we have the position in a nutshell. The stomach is “the fellow that kicks.” It is the stomach that exercises the coercion. I do not know how many inches of stomach we have, but when our food supply gets very low, “the stomach kicks very hard. I think the honorable member had that fact in mind when he made this reply. We must all be glad that, as the result of the action of the Leader of the Opposition, his followers have had so many opportunities, thus early in the session, to fill the pages of Hansard with their views on the question of preference to unionists. We have to look to the future ; we have to keep an eye on the elections; and we cannot have too much of this talk about the “tar-barrel politician.”
– Is the honorable member going to connect these remarks with the motion before the Chair?
– I am, sir. I think we cannot have too much matter to educate the people as to the reasons why we have declared for preference to unionists. It is all very well for the Opposition, to talk about the tar-barrel, gin-case, or tailofthecart politicians, but the greatest educator of public opinion is the public platform.
– The honorable member is now going beyond the question before the Chair.
– I have no desire to do so. The honorable member for Parramatta, when before this Royal Commission, dealt with so many phases of industrial life that
I am afraid it would be futile for me to attempt to quote his remarks at any length. If I did, I might be ruled out of order. But there is one expression of opinion on his part which serves to show, in my opinion, what a fine stamp of man he must have been in those days. His wife must indeed have been proud of him. The miners of Lithgow were certainly proud of him when he said, in the course of his evidence, that the greatest curse we had was land monopoly.
– The honorable member is now trying to evade my ruling.
– Then. I shall close up my little history-book. I thought it my duty to bring these facts before the House, because we cannot have too much education on a question of this kind. As the representative of East Sydney, I have no hesitation as to the way I shall give my vote. I shall give the vote which the people of East Sydney expect me to give, because in every address I delivered to them I made no secret of the fact that, so far as I was concerned, preference would be extended to unionists. Those who have watched my life in East Sydney know that since my first entry into trade unionism I have never been severed from the Trades Hall. I have always advocated trade unionism on the platform in New South Wales; and I assisted the movement on the platform in Victoria in the early eighties. I therefore give my vote without fear, and am confident that I give it with the full approval of my electors. Certain unions have been accused during the debate of not permitting men to enter their ranks, or of. charging heavy entrance fees. The honorable member for Wentworth, who is not now present, has made interjections to that effect ; and it will not be out of place for me to give honorable members, the facts. There have been in the Commonwealth only three unions that have at times imposed extraordinary entrance fees. The first is the Coallumpers Union, the second the Wharf Labourers, and the third the Hatters Union, with which the Minister of Trade and Customs was connected. One feature of the Hatters Union which I admire, and regard as an essential safeguard for any union - and in this connexion I may recall the remark which I made during the debate, that if the Government is going to employ unionists they should be able to produce a credential of respectability or capability - is the fact that they allow no one to become a member of the union unless he has first served his apprenticeship to the trade. Where any exception is made to that rule, the applicant who has served no. apprenticeship is charged a heavy entrance fee. Then there is the case of the Wharf Labourers Union. After the strike of 1890 - I was a member of the Maritime Council at the time - the Wharf Labourers Union was so flooded with labour that it was utterly impossible to find work for all its members. Only sufficient work was available to give each member of the union about one hour’s work per week, and consequently something had to be done to stop new members coming in. Another point was that if any man got into trouble, the first thing he did when he came out of the place where he had to suffer for his offence, was to run down to the Wharf Labourers Union and join it. The union tried to stop that sort of person getting in - a very commendable action on their part. Those were the reasons why the entrance fee was raised in that case. The justification given by the secretary of the Sydney Coal-lumpers Union for charging a heavy entrance fee was that, on joining the union, a member became entitled to certain benefits, such as sick pay. or paymerit to relatives after his death, and, in certain circumstances, a share of the funds of the union. Consequently, the man who paid £5 to join became entitled to benefits worth much more. In giving evidence to the Royal Commission on this subject in 1891, the secretary stated that- -
The object of a high entrance fee was’ principally because so many men deserted from their ships, and all wanted to join the union. By so doing they would participate in certain benefits, such as £10 to the widow in case of death, and, on retiring from the union, an equal share in the funds, which, three years ago, when the 5-guinea fee was first adopted, amounted to over j£6 per head. Then, in case of accidents or distress a member would receive a sum not exceeding £3 at a time, and further assistance if he required it till he had recovered. For these substantial benefits we charged an entrance fee of 5 guineas, besides levying a toll of 6d. a week. Taking into consideration the amount then standing in the bank to the credit of each member of the union, and the benefits to which himself or widow would be entitled in case of accident or death, I consider that the men would be getting good value for their 5-guinea fee.
I am sure that no honorable member will doubt my knowledge of these matters when I assure them that those are the only three unions where the entrance-fee has been made heavy, in spite of statementsmade by honorable members opposite, who know nothing about trade unions. Of course, no one would expect honorable members opposite to have any knowledge of that subject, except the honorable member for Parramatta, who has given us a great deal of good information upon it. Other honorable members have simply cast aspersions on the unions ; but I can assure them that all those honorable members on this side who have been connected with trade unions have endeavoured to make them a credit to Australia. I can assure the House that the most progressive and prominent members of the trade unions are men who lead sober, honest, and upright lives. It is to those qualities that they owe their positions. They are good citizens, and a credit to the Commonwealth. I hope that when matters of this kind are again discussed, we shall not have to listen to these aspersions from people who speak without knowledge. I shall always be prepared to defend unionists against these accusations. I am sure that the honorable member for Parramatta will agree with my statement that the men occupying the best positions in unionism are amongst the most valuable citizens of the Commonwealth. Another statement which has been drummed into our ears by honorable members opposite is that trade unions in the past were not political. Again, our honorable friends have been speaking without knowledge. Since the Royal Commissions of 1867 and 1869 in Great Britain, and since 1874 in Australia, or at least in New South Wales, trade unions have interested themselves in politics. The honorable member for Dalley will bear me out when I say that the funds of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters cannot be used for any purposes other than the benefits they provide for as friendly societies. But they have taken a strong interest in politics, and every penny they have spent upon political movements has been raised by special voluntary levies.
– That is quite true.
– In 1874, in New South Wales, some of us paid from 6d. to is. per week, before the introduction of payment of members, to keep certain gentlemen in the State Parliaments. I may mention the names of Jacob Garrard, Ninian Melville, and Charles Jardine Don. The latter was a marvellous man. He was a stonemason, and while working on the building of this Parliament House used to knock off work, put on his coat, and walk into the Legislative Assembly Chamber, of which he was one of the brightest ornaments. Then there was Mr. Angus Cameron. All these men were paid for some time, but I regret to say that when, in the case of some of them, the contributions fell off, they “turned dog on us.” We kept up the payments as long as we could, but there came a time when we could not afford to keep them up any longer, and Mr. Angus Cameron subsequently got in with what some people call the “ boodlers.” though I must say I dislike the word. He got in with persons interested in financial institutions, who made a “ guinea pig “ of him by getting him appointed to the board of directors of some financial concerns, and we had to turn him down because he betrayed us. Later, there was our friend, Mr/ E. W. O’sullivan, and others. It is clear, therefore, that when some honorable members opposite tell us that in the past trade unions took no hand in political matters, they speak without knowledge, because I know that they have done so for the last forty years. The honorable member for Darling Downs last night gave us a very long address. It must have taken him much time, and the honorable gentleman must have worked hard, to get up all the information he had. But he went to New Zealand for some of his illustrations. What is the use of quoting New Zealand in such a matter when the conditions in the Dominion and in the Commonwealth are not analogous? The honorable member might just as well have given us the opinion- of the Emperor of China on the question whether an egg’ should be boiled or fried to be good for the digestion. That would, in fact, have been more interesting. The decisions even of our own Conciliation and Arbitration Court do not affect this question, because in this matter the Government are in the same position as a private employer. They can employ whom they please, and there is nothing to prevent them giving preference. There is nothing to prevent a private employer giving preference to unionists. There is no law to prevent me doing so, and I know that my foreman would not take on a nonunionist. When honorable members tell us that the Government cannot give preference to unionists for employment in the Public Service, let me tell them that Mr. E. W. O’sullivan did so as a member of the Government of New South Wales. He went to the unions to get his foremen as well as his workers, and if he could do that, the members of the Commonwealth Government can do the same. We have often heard that the King can do no wrong, and in this case the Government, representing the King, can do no wrong. I am satisfied that the electors of East Sydney know very well how my vote will go on this motion. It will be in keeping with the platform which we put before the people at the last election, and on which they returned us to power. Is there a single individual in the community who believes for a moment that when we made the change of Government we did not intend to alter things? The Leader of the Opposition has admitted that he knew there would be changes. He told the people that they must expect changes if the Labour Government were returned to power”; and I say now that preference to unionists is as much a part of the Labour platform as is land taxation. If we did not give preference to unionists, our honorable friends opposite would say to the electors, 1 ‘ Did they not tell you that if you put them in, they would give preference to unionists? Well, they have not done it.” If that could be truly said of us, the electors would kick us out, and we should deserve our fate; but we do not intend to give our friends the opportunity of saying any such thing. We are here to carry out to the letter every political pledge we made. I am prepared to do so, and if I am not again returned, I shall go back to work, where 1 came from, and I shall not cry about it either. -When I was defeated the last time, I did not cry. Every one came round after the contest, and expected to see tears in my eyes. But they said, “ Jack, you are just the same, as ever ; you have not altered.” I am satisfied that the course the Government are pursuing in this matter is the correct one. I have no wish to say anything that would offend the Prime Minister, but I am prepared to ad- mit.that when the Government proposed to make a change of this kind, they should have let the Leader of the Opposition know what they intended to do.
– They should let the country know.
– I think the Leader of the Opposition is entitled to the information. There may have been a little omission on this occasion, but I do not think there was any intention to slight the honorable gentleman in the matter.
– Did the honorable member know, until the other day, that the Government intended to grant a preference to unionists?
– I know that I almost worried them to death, because I desired that preference to be granted. Nobody can dispute that labour under control is better than labour under no control. Even medical practitioners have formed a union of their own, and have decided how much they will charge for examining each candidate for enrolment under our Defence Act. If we require legal assistance we go to the legal union, which has laid down certain definite charges. Whenever we employ a member of any association we have to be bound by its regulations. Why cannot we apply the same principle to mechanics? I hope that the youth of Australia will be educated to understand that it is honorable for them to enter trades and callings which people have hitherto been prone to despise. The only way in which we can command respect for those trades and callings is by upholding their dignity, and by preserving their rights, and privileges. For these reasons I am glad to vote in favour of extending a preference to unionists. Upon every occasion that it has been my lot to employ a professional man I have always employed one who was a member of an organization which was endeavouring to improve the condition of his fellows. That is the only way in which we can make this world brighter and happier than it is.
– I desire to make a personal explanation. The honorable member who has just resumed his seat has sought to make it appear that I ought to be supporting the action of the Government in extending a preference to unionists.
– The honorable member is now going beyond a personal explanation.
– I am not. I have not got anywhere yet.
-The honorable member has said that the honorable member for East Sydney made a certain statement.
– The honorable member will be in order in making a personal explanation, but he must not go beyond that. ‘
– I intend to supply the facts which the honorable member for East Sydney omitted to state. The honorable member has “ peacocked “ certain statements made by me.
– The honorable member is now going beyond a personal explanation
– In what way ?
– The honorable member has distinctly charged the honorable member for East Sydney with having “peacocked ‘’ certain statements. As far as I understand the term “ peacocked, “ it means that the honorable member for East Sydney has in an unfair way picked out certain portions from the document which he quoted, and has omitted other portions.
– That is quite true.
– Then the honorable member is laying a charge against the honorable member for East Sydney. In doing so he is not in order. He has a perfect right to explain matters, but he is not in order in making a charge against another honorable member.
– The occasion referred to was twenty-one years ago. I wonder when my honorable friends will cease their rummaging amongst the dead past.
– The honorable member has a past.
– So has the honorable member for Riverina. A grand trade unionist he has always been. He joined a union about twelve months ago in order to get back to Parliament.
– The honorable member for Parramatta is seeking to make a personal explanation, and I must ask honorable members not to interrupt him. These interruptions are not fair to him nor to the House nor to myself.
– Upon the occasion in question, in speaking of the constitution of an Industrial Court, I said -
My idea of a Court would be this : - I am halting between two ideas - one would be a sort of Conciliation Board consisting of two or three from each side.
Twenty-one years ago therefore it is clear that I was in favour of the establishment of Wages Boards on a purely voluntary basis. I proceeded -
In case they could not settle a dispute, then I would be in favour of one from each side, and these two to elect an independent man, but all three to have the facts referred to them, and to have something to say in the decision.
A little later the question was put to me -
Have you seen the Bill that has been drafted by Mr. Kingston, of South Australia? to which I replied -
Yes, I have seen that.
My examination then proceeded -
What opinion have you formed with regard to it? - I think there is the nucleus of what might be a good scheme, but there are certain objectionable features. I do not like the idea of enforcing the awards of the Court by a heavy monetary penalty. I should abject to that most strongly. Then, as to the composition of the Court, I am afraid that it would be slightly unwieldy. It consists of seven members on each side, and that is too many.
Is there not something said about the parties having the right to nominate their own representatives? - Yes; they are nominated by the parties affected, except the chairman.
And to whom would you leave the right of nominating the chairman? - I would not absolutely object to the Government, but would leave it to the Government as a final matter in case the parties could not agree to elect a chairman themselves. If it came to a deadlock, and the deadlock continued, then I should be in favour of some outside party appointing the chairman.
Do you believe in having one principal Board to adjust all trade disputes, or would you have several Boards? - I would have the Colony divided into sections for that purpose, having a Board for each of the three districts, western, northern, and southern.
That would be for miners? - No, for all disputes.
You mean that the same scheme would apply in regard to other occupations? - Just so.
With regard to the awards that may be made by these Courts, do you think that they should be binding? - Yes, I think they should be binding.
Do you think that the award would be respected? - I do, most emphatically. I think it is probable that the force of public opinion alone would be quite sufficient, without any compulsory enforcement.
Honorable members will see that I was against the principle of compulsory arbitration, as all the members of the Labour organizations were at that time.
– What has that to do with the question now before the House?
– I should think that it has a great deal to do with the question. I was further examined asfollows -
Would the western miners accept the decisions of a fairly constituted Board of Conciliation? - Yes; I think they would.
– Order ! It appears to me that, under cover of a personal explanation, the honorable member is distinctly combating statements made by an honorable member on the Ministerial side of the House. The honorable member is not in order in doing so. I do not know how much more of the report the honorable member proposes to read, but it seems to me that he is going beyond the proper limits of a personal explanation.
– I shall read only two or three more of the questions put to me -
Suppose the Government were to establish a Board, do you think it would be fair if the employers said, “ We will take our quarrel there,” that you should be compelled to go ; or, if the workmen said they would appeal to the Board, ‘ it would be fair to employers to compel them to ‘go, or would you .have the consent of both parties before a dispute could be taken before the Board?- It would be better if they went by mutual consent.
But if you could not get the consent of both parties, if the Government were to say, “You must go into Court and the Court shall decide “ ? - I think the men would consent to it.
But if the employers were willing to go, and the men did not want to, would they then accept the decision? - Yes, I think they would.
Then, if it was a Government Board, would you make the decision compulsory? - I do not like the idea of decisions being enforced at all.
All that I wish to make clear is that, at that time, I was in favour of a Board of Conciliation, not set up by the Government at all, but set up by the miners and proprietors, to adjust their disputes amicably amongst themselves. That is the tenor of the evidence.
.- I do not propose to follow the honorable member for East Sydney through the various devious pathways that he has trodden in the course of his speech. There was very little in the deliverance of one hour and a half with which he has favoured us that touched upon the real issue raised by the motion of the Leader of the Opposition. The honorable member said, however, that this Government was put in office to make changes. They certainly have made changes ; and their last change, to my mind, at all events, marks a distinct epoch in the history of the Commonwealth. Never before have we had a Government stating clearly and distinctly that it intended in future to give preference to political partisans in matters of administration and employment. We have never had a Government in Australia that contemplated such a thing. It may be that the late Honorable E. W. O’sullivan did what the honorable member for East Sydney states. Birt that does not affect the assertion that no party supporting a Government has ever ‘ before in the history of this Commonwealth come out clearly and stated that it intended in future to give preference to political partisans. I believe that it is the desire of this House to take a division to-night, and I shall, therefore, be as brief as I possibly can in expressing my views regarding the important issue raised by the motion. Perhaps there is no better way of putting that view plainly than to place the action of the present Government in juxtaposition to a supposed action by some other Government. Suppose - to draw on one’s imagination for a little while - that, instead of the honorable members on the Ministerial side sitting on the right of the Speaker, they were on his left, and that they were in a minority ; that then the Government of the day issued an order that none but non-unionists were to be employed, and that they were to be given preference on Government works and undertakings. My imagination fails to picture the scene that would be enacted in this Chamber by honorable members opposite if such a thing were done. There is no word of opprobrium, no epithet of scorn, no expression of contempt, that, in my opinion, would be sufficiently severe to characterize the action of a Ministry that was guilty of such conduct. Yet, Mr. Speaker, that is exactly, in principle, what the present Government Has done.
– The honorable member is becoming severe.
– No. I am only putting the case clearly and distinctly. There is absolutely no difference in principle between the suppositional case which I cited and what the Government have done. The principle underlying such an action as I have supposed and the principle underlying their action are identical ; there is no difference. Can honorable members imagine themselves for a moment in the position of this side with a Government having done what the present Government have done in the opposite way ? I do not think that they can. I do not believe that they can imagine the scene which would be enacted here’, and I am sure that no word-picture could adequately portray it.
– Do you not think’ that it would be orderly ?
– Do you think that we would follow Mr. Wade’s example?
– I believe that if it were possible to be more disorderly than the Opposition in the New South Wales Assembly has been of late that would eventuate.
– Order !
– Honorable members opposite, in the attempts which they have made to justify the action of the present Government, have talked a very great deal about preference to unionists. The principle of preference, to unionists, as it has Been understood up to the present time, is not for one moment involved in the question of giving preference to employe’s by the Government. The two kinds of preference are absolutely distinct and dissimilar. As far as the east is from the west, so far is the character of the preference which was embodied in the Act of 1904 removed from that of the preference which the Government are extending to their employes. They are as dissimilar as light is from dark. There is no relation between them - good, bad,, or indifferent.
– Are you not going to’ point out the distinction now that you have gone so far?
– Yes. I think that honorable members on the other side must be fully aware of wherein that great distinction lies. In the Act of 1904, which was introduced in this House, and which, as has been stated several times during this debate, was indorsed by three successive Governments, a preference was to be extended to unionists only by a duly constituted Court which was divorced from political unionism, and that is wherein the great difference lies.
– I think that that is the trouble.
– I admit it willingly, because it makes all the difference. The moment my honorable friends associate politics with unionism, and give preference to unionists, they give preference to political partisans.
– What is the use of talking like that?
– Perhaps the honorable member does not like it.
– Do you admit the secrecy of the ballot ?
– What has that to do with the case I have stated?
– It has everything to do with it.
– Nothing. The moment my honorable friends associate the two things they distinctly give preference to political partisans. It does not matter a scrap which way they vote ; that is not the point. I do not say that every one will vote in a particular direction, but we do know, and honorable members on the other side have willingly admitted it over and over again in this debate, that they owe their position on the Government benches to the political support which they received from the unions. As a consequence, the moment they give preference to unionists they give preference to their political partisans, and therein lies the great difference between the preference which was contemplated in the Act of 1904 and the preference which we have in the action of the present Government. I do not want to use more than a few words instating my views on trade unionism. I believe trade unionism or industrial unionismto be a thoroughly beneficial thing to the community at large. I have always advocated it, and wherever the conditions allow trade unionism or industrial unionism to be extended I shall always be an advocate of its extension, because I believe that it is only by such means that it is possible to bring about industrial peace, insure the general prosperity of the people, obviate the grinding poverty which exists in other parts of the world, and give people generally decent conditions of life. I am sure that there is not one member on this side who does not advocate trade unionism in those aspects. The whole forces of Liberalism have been directed towards helping on that movement and promoting those objects which industrial unionism, itself, really has in view. This afternoon the honorable member for Dalley, in the course of a speech, a great deal of which it was a pleasure to listen to, said that it was impossible for political unionism and industrial unionism to be carried on side by side without becoming amalgamated. He talked a good deal about co-ordination but as the Leader of the Opposition pointed out by an interjection, you must have two things to get co-ordination. You cannot have coordination where you have amalgamation. The two things are quite dissimilar. Our great objection to preference to unionists is that our honorable friends opposite insist upon the amalgamation of political unionism and industrial unionism.
– The unions do that themselves.
– I dare say that they do, and I have no objection to any unions combining for political purposes ; they have a perfect right to combine. But what we hold is that an industrial union should not necessarily be a political union. It is the insistence of my honorable friends opposite, and their supporters, that these two things shall come together, and shall be identical, that we object to. That is wherein the great danger lies of the action which the Government have taken.
– Do you object to the right of the unions to say so?
– Precisely, I do object to the unions saying so, because there it is a case of majority rule, and the moment you get majority rule you override the minority in regard to a subject on which there should be the most perfect individual liberty. That is where the great difference comes in.
– Do you object to majority rule?
– I object to majority rule in politics, so far as it means dictating to any person as to the free exercise of a political right. What I am endeavouring to point out is that, whilst I fully believe in industrial unionism, whilst I admit the fullest liberty in regard to political unionism, there should be no amalgamation of political unionism with industrial unionism, because you cannot get that amalgamation without overriding the individual liberty of members of your industrial unions in regard to their political views. I desire to show, as briefly as possible, the manner in which industrial unions today have become political unions. When the Australian Workers Union originally went to the New South Wales Arbitration Court for an award,” it was an industrial and a political union, with rules which were binding on the members in regard to certain political matters. The members were obliged to subscribe to certain political funds, and also to the newspaper of the party. Before the union t.ould get an award, these rules had to be taken out of the articles of association. When the Act of 1904 was passed by this Parliament, those rules were kept out, but the moment the Government pf the day, last year, removed those provisions in the Act- provisions which prevented unions from being political organizations - the rules were re-incorporated-
– That is not correct.
– I have the rules here, and I shall read them. Rule 11 is as follows : -
Annual contributions - shearers, cooks, machine experts, 15s. ; all other classes of labour, 10s. Provided that the member shall further be subject to such levies as may from time to time be determined upon by the annual conference or the executive council. Five shillings from each contribution received by the southern branches shall be set apart exclusively for the Southern Worker newspaper ; and such sum from each contribution received by the northern branches as they shall agree upon, shall be set apart exclusively for the Northern Worker newspaper.
– That has always been the rule.
– What is wrong with it?
– A portion of the rule was taken out.
– Not a word of it.
– Rule 48 reads thus-
When any branch, by a two-thirds majority or plebiscite, has authorized the expenditure of any sum not exceeding is. per financial member per year for political purposes, the Committee thereof from time to time, as it shall think fit, shall set aside from its general funds, and place to the credit of a parliamentary fund, such amount as it shall deem necessary for the purposes of political organization, and for securing the return of Labour representation -
– We do not deny that ! I plead guilty, anyway !
– It is distinctly partisan in character, and can be applied to only one political party in Australia.
– Does the Minister of Home Affairs employ shearers?
– The rule continues- to Federal and State Parliament, provided the amount so set aside shall not exceed the aggregate amount of is. per year per financial member from the time of the last appropriation. The Committee, if in its opinion an active political Labour organization exists -
– We grant all that.
– Yes, but I am going to read the rule - within the branch boundaries, shall appropriate from such fund a sum of 6d. per member per year on such number of members of this union as may be agreed upon by the Committee of the said branch and the said political Labour organization, and pay the same to the said political Labour organization.
– What a terrible tax - 6d. a year !
– There is one thing the honorable member has forgotten; we have levied £1 a year for the last two years for a daily newspaper.
– The rule goes on-
The parliamentary fund shall be available only on behalf of duly-pledged Labour candidates who have also been approved by the union, and who are possessed of the qualifications prescribed for members of the State Legislature, and also of the qualifications prescribed for members of the Federal Parliament.
Honorable members will notice that a certain amount of the funds of the unions has, though not necessarily, to be set aside, for political labour organizations, within the scope of the branch of the unions.
– Hear, hear !
– That does not prevent the union from using its funds for its own propaganda work; it does not prevent that propaganda being of a purely political character.
– They do it.
– They do it- the honorable member admits it ! I have heard honorable members opposite say that it is a very small sum which is subscribed to political organizations. But the funds which unions subscribe to political organizations are subscribed to organizations outside themselves, leaving the union organization intact.
– Not at all.
– The honorable member admitted, it just now.
– No ; it all comes out of the 15s.. as I shall tell the House when I get up, ‘
– The honorable member will not deny that there are a good many members of political labour leagues who pay their 2s. a year, and who are npt members of unions at all.
– Hear, hear !
– That proves my point that there is an organization outside the trade unions, which is assisting the. trade unions to carry on one great political movement.
– Hear, hear !
– That proves the point I raised at the beginning, namely, that the trade unions to-day are purely political. They are industrial; but the political elements have been so amalgamated with the industrial that we can say to-day that the trade unions of Australia are purely political.
– There are many unions which are not political.
– But they will be after this debate !
– I should say that the trade unions are practically political, and are pledged to support my honorable friends opposite.
– Not necessarily.
– And not individually.
– Not necessarily; but the whole force of the unions, and the whole funds of the unions, could not be devoted to any other purpose outside their own individual concerns except that of keeping my honorable friends opposite in power.
– Is there any crime in that ?
– No; but the crime comes in when it is these unions to which the Government say they are going to give preference. I have a few figures here which show to what extent this movement has advanced in Australia. When the honorable member for Hunter was speaking the other day, he said that Mr. Knibbs’ figures as to the number of trade unionists in Australia were far from correct. The honorable member contended that, although New South Wales was the only State in which the whole of the trade unions were registered, and the number of unionists known, it afforded a fair indication of the number of unionists in the Commonwealth. I think that that contention is perfectly fair, because, speaking generally, we may take it that the same proportion of unionists to the population will be found in the other States. I have taken the figures for 1909, given in the Commonwealth Year-Booh, the latest procurable, and, assuming that the proportion of unionists to the general population is the same in the other States as in New South Wales, I have found that the total number of unionists in Australia is 343,000, the number in New South Wales being 127,000. The total amount subscribed by those unionists, apart from the amount subscribed by the political labour leagues, is £395,000 a year.
– There are about 390,000 unionists in Australia.
– In that case, the funds probably amount to ,£450,000.
– If the unionists are spending so much in promoting the interests of Australia, they deserve some recognition from this Government.
– The members of the Labour party never tire of speaking about the enormous sums spent by the Liberal party on political organization, but what ever is spent by our supporters is nothing in comparison with the amount spent by the unions to .keep the Labour party in power.
– Much of the money of the unions goes to provide funeral expenses, out-of-work allowances, and other benefits. Many of the unions are practically friendly societies.
– I admit that the disbursements to which the honorable member refers amount to a considerable sum, but I have figures which show how greatly the funds of the unions are swallowed up in expenses of administration, and management, and how large is the sum expended on the furtherance of political ends. According to the twenty-fifth report of the Queensland Registrar of Friendly Societies, Building Societies and Trade Unions, the expenditure of the registered trade unions - there are also unregistered unions, in regard to which no information is obtainable - for 1909 amounted to .£16,256, of which only £2,532 was paid away in benefits. The sum of £8,398 went to pay the expenses of management. It is very dear management that costs 50 per cent, of the total expenditure of the concern which is being managed. Of the balance, £5,326 went in assistance to other unions, legal and political expenses, and” contributions to the Labour newspaper.
– How much went in political expenses.
– A very large part of the sum I have mentioned, though great care is taken to leave us in the dark as to the expenditure for political purposes. Large as the sum is - and it amounts to, at least, one-fifth of the total subscriptions - there must be added to it the expenditure of the political labour leagues.
– What is the honorable member’s point?
– That the unions use their funds very largely to keep my honorable friends in power. That is why the action of the Government in granting preference to unionists is indefensible.
– How much of the £5,000 is spent for political purposes?
– If only £2,000 is spent for political purposes, and, as the honorable member for Maribyrnong suggests, £450,000 is subscribed by the unionists of Australia-
– I did not say how much is subscribed.
– The honorable member for Dalley told’ us this afternoon that for twenty-five years he has subscribed no less than £5 a year to union funds.
– The Newcastle Miners Association, which is the largest union in Australia, with the exception of the Shearers Union, does not pay a penny to any political fund.
– My point is that the unions use their funds for political purposes; whether the amount so spent is large or small is immaterial. The unions are pledged adherents of the Labour party, and the Government, in granting preference to unionists, is granting preference to its own partisans. For that there is absolutely no justification. If the Government believe that this kind of preference to unionists is sound in principle, why do they not embody it in a Bill ? Why do they not place it on the statute-book of the Commonwealth, where it would remain until the people returned representatives to repeal it?
– The position is the same from an administrative stand-point.
– There is a great principle underlying the whole proposal, and effect should not be given to it by administrative act. It should be done by the act of the people themselves through their Parliament. I challenge the Government to embody the principle in a Bill, and to submit it to this House.
– I take it that by negativing this motion of censure, this Parliament will show that it is in favour of .the principle.
– The Government are not game to attempt to place this principle on the statute-book.
– Then why do they not take action? If they are prepared to embody the principle in a Bill, let them do so at once. The only other point I wish to make is that, since the Prime Minister spoke, we have not had from one honorable member opposite a pronouncement as to whom this preference is to be applied, and as to how far it is to extend. If the Government intention is perfectly clear and above-board, let it be expressed in a Bill, and placed on the statute-book, so that we may know exactly where we stand.
.- At the outset, I -wish to define my position with regard to this motion by stating that T am quite in accord with the opinion expressed some time ago by the honorable member for Flinders, that there is going to be no perfect system of conciliation and arbitration until the whole of the workers, as well as the whole of the employers of labour, are organized. I hope the day is not far distant when that will be brought about, but until it is I sincerely trust that the unions will never’ give up their right to strike. That is the only weapon that remains in their hands, and if they part with it, Heaven knows what will become of them.
– They have already parted with it by law.
– My advice to those who secure an award of the Conciliation and Arbitration Court as at present constituted is to obey it to the very letter. I have always given that advice.
– The honorable member means that those who seek an award should obey it.
– If I give a concrete example of what I mean, the honorable member, perhaps, will understand me. I have not the good fortune to have had such an education as he has had ; but I am understood by the commoner, and, if the honorable member is too superior to understand what I say, the loss is his, not mine. The Australian Workers Union is to-day before the Arbitration Court, and that union, as well as the Pastoralists Union, has spent thousands of pounds by way of law costs in an effort to secure industrial peace. When the award of the Court is given, I, as a parliamentary representative of the people, as well as one of the leading lights of the Australian Workers Union, will advise that it be implicitly obeyed. Notwithstanding all that has been said by the Opposition, we on this side of the House stand for unionism, and preference to unionists. We are all pledged right up to the hilt in that respect. Despite what the honorable member for Wilmot said last night, every member of my party has signed a pledge to do his best to bring about preference to unionists.
– The honorable member and his party signed a pledge to bring about the preference to unionists mentioned in their platform ; not the preference now proposed.
– We have reached a strange pass if we have to go to a barrister of the honorable member’s calibre to secure an interpretation of our platform. No honorable member of my party will deny what I have said, and I hold that we are only carrying out our pledge in supporting this preference to. unionists. This brings me to the order issued by the Director-General of Works, which the Leader, of the Opposition and every member of his party has condemned. Let me say at once that no other interpretation could have been given to the minute of the Minister of Home Affairs than that placed upon it by the Director of Works. Absolute preference to unionists means absolute preference, and preference every time, and the first men to be dismissed under the Minister’s minute would be non-unionists. I am pleased to say, however, that there are no nonunionists working to-day in the Department of Home Affairs. The honorable member for Grampians should be the last to talk about coercion, and I shall tell him why.
In doing so, I shall have to make a slight personal reference to an old and valued friend of mine in this House - the honorable member for Fawkner - whom I hope I shall always be able to describe in that way. We two engaged in one of the most serious industrial disputes that has ever taken place on the Australian continent. He was on one side of the river, and I was on the other. Starvation lost us the day, but although we were beaten on that occasion, we are the gainers to-day. Look, at the result of the tyranny of the Pastoralists Union within less than twenty years ! We went down badly, our union was disorganized, our funds were depleted. It was a case of “ save himself who can ; get in where you can.” The other side brought up free labourers, or, as they were commonly called then, “white wings.” They had the Queensland Government at their back, and poured them in by trainloads. They brought out all the police and military that it was possible to get to overawe the unionists in the- different parts of Queensland. If some of them had had their way, like one gentleman in Brisbane who signed himself “ Phlebotomy,” they would have done more. He said, “Why do not the Government exterminate them as they would other vermin? Why use a watering can? There must be some” blood-letting.”
– And there was, too.
– If so, I have never heard of it before. There might have been had it not been for the man who conducted the police operations during the trouble. He is dead now. These things happened twenty-one years ago, but they are as vivid before me to-day as if it were only last week. The gentlemen .to whom I refer was John Ahern, Inspector of Police in Queensland, familiarly known as JackyJacky. He knew the material the bushmen were made of, and handled them accordingly, and thanks to him no one was shot on either side.
– But no thank’s to the Government of the day.
– The pastoralists had the Government at their backs. They had their military, they had their magistrates, they had their Judges, they had their gaols. They took our men, who did nothing but stand up for liberty and freedom, dragged them through the streets of Clermont, along the railways of Queensland, through the town of Barcaldine, and through the city of Rockhampton, chained together like a lot of bullocks. Then people wonder at our resenting these things ! One needs only to have been in them to know, the electricity that is put into one’s body when these thoughts are aroused. No one remembers those critical times better than yourself, Mr. Speaker. When they had no charge to make against unionists, the other side even went so far as to manufacture them, and, for the information of the legal gentlemen in this House, let me tell them that they manufactured against one man in the Winton district a charge of being a person of ill-fame. They tried him, and re-tried him, and eventually had to let him go. They had the military at Dag worth, where it was said that the unionists were going to take the place by storm, and I remember that there was bloodshed on that occasion - a fact that will interest the honorable member for Moreton. The military, and police, and station hands, and “ white wings “ rallied round, all being armed. They kept up a fusillade all night, and i:i the morning it was found that the destruction had been terrible - the whole of the station’s prize rams were lying dead ! The serious side of the question was that many on our side were dragged to gaol, and did three years for conspiracy. But it was the best advertisement that we could possibly Have had for unionism - and by the way, this debate will have the same effect. Our men suffered their three years in gaol without asking for one day’s remission, and came out. There were only four men in the Queensland Parliament who had a good or kind word to say for those men at that time. One of them, I am pleased and proud to say, was the father of the honorable member for Darling Downs, another was P. J., or “ Paddy “ O’sullivan, a third was Mr. Hoolan, the member for Bourke, and the fourth was ex- Senator Glassey, then member for Bundamba. The other side, including the honorable member for Fawkner, gave us certain advice when the strike was over, and everything was going along swimmingly except for a few, whom they tried to hound out of the country. But to-day those few men, whom they tried to deprive of the opportunity of earning a living in Australia, and whose wives and children they attempted to sacrifice, are occupying high positions in the State and Federal Parliaments. Talk about revenge; should there not have been a spirit of revenge ? 1 candidly admit that that feeling was rampant in my heart when I entered this Parliament. I said, “ I will give Mr. Squatter a go from this out.” Let me tell honorable members what they advised us to do - but it did not eventuate. We are to-day occupying some of the proudest positions that any country can confer on its members, and I venture to say that - giving them in the honorable member for Ballarat, the honorable member for Flinders, and the right honorable member for Swan - we can, man for man, hold our own in debate, either here or on the platform, with the other side of the House. They advised us then to take a certain course, the honorable member for Fawkner being one of those who tendered us that good advice. They said, “ The strike has been a loss to the country,” which I admit, “ and it has been a loss to us “ - and by the same token, let me tell honorable members that, in my view, every sheep, horse, cow, or calf in Australia is not an asset of the Pastoralists Union, or of any particular selector, but a national asset, and that is the consideration which has driven the spirit of revenge out of me. Since coming into this Parliament, I have taken a broader view of things than I did before, and I am now, like the honorable member for Indi, a nationalist.
– Would the honorable member, in fairness, tell the House what they did to me in the streets of Clermont?
– Yes; but the honorable member came off all right. He had all the police to protect him, and one inspector swore in the Court that he “ surrounded “ the men. They took the horses out of the honorable member’s buggy, but those were stirring times, and men were excited.
– Did they not try to kill us?
– They tried to turn the trap over into the lagoon. They were only using a little moral suasion. I do not wish to hide anything, although it is so long ago now that the trouble is all forgotten by both sides. We were advised to take a certain course. Those opposed to us said, “ Why do you strike? Why do you not put your men into Parliament to alter the laws which you say are oppressive. Then you can have all things your own way.” Well, we tried. A Mr. Murphy, who was one of the owners of Northampton, Ravensbourne, and other stations in Queensland, and was member for Barcoo at the time, happened to die, and we put up one of our men, T. J. Ryan, the secretary of the union, to contest the seat. We won. but we had no pledge then. At this time there was some trouble in the Labour ranks in New South Wales, and the movement towards Labour solidarity was started. I believe that it was then, or very soon afterwards, that the honorable member for Parramatta reached the parting of the ways. However, we sent T. J. Ryan to Parliament, and were quite satisfied when he came back to us twelve months later. But he said then, “ The cushions are too soft, the whisky is too strong, the squatters’ friendship is too great, and I shall have to turn it up.”
– Does the honorable member propose to connect these remarks with the question?
– Yes, I am leading up to the reasons for the action taken by unionists. The honorable member for Richmond attacked the Australian Workers Union. He has spoken of the way in which that union spends money, and charges its members with being political, and I wish to refute his arguments. We took the advice of the pastoralists, and then the first thing the party behind them did was to bring in an amendment of the electoral law, which made it impossible for men engaged in nomadic occupations to get their names on the rolls. We continued the fight, and, in passing, I may say in connexion with the referendum and its result that we are made of the stuff to meet such rebuffs. We fought on until we got to the Treasury benches. On one occasion our opponents struck hundreds of names off the rolls, and we lost many seats for which we tried, until we went to the Supreme Court for a definition of ‘L-residence.” Mr. Justice Chubb said that the definition of “residence” was wherever a man resided, even though it were up in a gum tree. From that time we have been gathering force in Queensland, until to-day we send six representatives to the Federal Parliament, and we hope to send the ten before long. .After the shearers’ strike broke up, we came together as unionists, and desired to improve our position, but we found, directly we went to look for work, that there was a black list.
– And now honorable members opposite are going to make another.
– No, we are not. Yesterday evening I challenged the honorable member for Parramatta to go down the street with me, and try to get a job. I went down yesterday evening to secure a job for the honorable gentleman and myself, and got it. We can start work on Monday morning, irrespective of whether we are unionists or not.
– I am not on.
– Well. it is no good to me without the honorable member for Parramatta, so it is off with me, too. I have said that a black list was issued by the pastoralists. I do not happen to have it in my possession now, but I used it in 1904 on the introduction of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It may interest honorable members who were not in this House at that time if I gave a resume of it. I do not pretend to say that that black list justifies a black list in connexion with this proposal. I want to make it clear that, thanks to the Arbitration Court, and the good sense of the Pastoralists Union of Australia to-day, there is no black list in operation in the industry now. The pastoralists take a man on on his reference, and if he does not suit he is hung up, and that is all there is about it. I wish to show the tribulations and trials which, as unionists, we have had to go through, and I say it behoves us at this time of day, when we are successful, to carry out the planks of our platform, without fear or favour. I came into this House pledged to preference to unionists, and I venture to say that there is not an honorable member on this side who does nol approve of what the Minister of Home Affairs has done in this case. The honorable member for Richmond asked where this was to end. He tried to fix some blame upon the Australian Workers Union on the ground that they subscribe funds for political purposes. There is no secret about the matter, and I. may as well tell honorable members that the contribution towards the political fund is rs. per member per annum. If there are 50,000 men. in the Australian Workers Union that makes 50,000s., and it is not a difficult matter to calculate what that amounts to. Of the 15s. subscribed to the union in Queensland by a shearer 3s. goes to the Worker fund, and for that contribution every member of the union gets a free copy of the Worker.
– Is there not a funeral fund also?
– No, I am speaking of Queensland. In some of the States the union has a funeral and sick fund, but in Queensland there is a contribution of 15s. per head per annum demanded from every shearer, and ros. from every general hand. We have struck a levy of £i per head for shearers, and ros. per head for rouse.abouts, for the daily newspaper fund, and in the last letter I got from the secretary in Queensland, he says “ Jim, they are all paying up like toffs, and want to know whether we want any more.” This is for the daily newspaper. The recording angels in the press gallery here are a fine lot of men, and every one of them is a unionist. Yet they have to write the trash and tripe that we see dished up in the morning newspapers of this city. The leader-writers, are the only men employed upon their staffs who are outside the union, and they have to write to order, or out they would go on their pink ears. I would just like the Age and the Argus to give the recording angels in the press gallery a free hand for one day only, to see how they would write and whether they would denounce the granting of a preference to unionists. In the composing-rooms of the Melbourne newspaper offices to-day, every man is a unionist. A non-unionist could not get there. These newspapers themselves grant a preference to unionists, and yet they are the very loudest in their denunciation of the principle of Labour coercion. If there can be anything more Gilbertian than that, I cannot conceive of it. It is a pity that that grand comic opera writer is dead ; otherwise, he might construct a nice comic opera upon the actions of honorable members opposite. I wish now to say a word or two to the honorable member for Parramatta. Assuming that he were defeated at the next election, or that force of circumstances compelled him to follow his former occupation as a miner, would he be prepared to advocate open pits for unionists and skulkers alike? Would he affirm that unionists should pay all contributions and levies, and that the skulkers should pay nothing, and would he then have the temerity to turn round and address the miners as brothers ? I put the question to him more in sorrow than in anger, because I recognise what he did for unionism in the early days of that movement in New South Wales, when to be a unionist was an abominable crime. I was exceedingly sorry yesterday to hear him denouncing the very terror - 1 say it in a whisper - that he advocated when he was a union secretary, namely, the extension of a preference to unionists and not to skulkers. I applaud his former sentiments. Unionism alone has made it possible for him to occupy the position that he does to-day. Does it become any man who has risen from the lowest rung on fortune’s ladder to boot the men who put him there?
– That is an infamous statement for the honorable member to make, and it is absolutely untrue.
– Order !
– It is not untrue. I have merely stated what took place here yesterday.
– The honorable member has not done that.
– The honorable member denounced the principle of preference to unionists.
– Who did?
– The honorable member did, with a big “ but.” He denounced it except it was administered through legal formalities.
– This is a tissue of misrepresentations .
– If I am misrepresenting the honorable member, I hope that, at the close of my remarks, he will rise and point out how I have misrepresented him. If he can do that, nobody will apologize more quickly than I will. I have no desire to do him any injustice whatever. I sat here the whole time that he was speaking, and it was more in sorrow than in anger that I heard him say what he did. The right honorable member for Swan during the course of his speech, and the Leader of the Opposition by an interjection, asked, “ What about those who are advocating murder?” I expect that they were referring to the statement made by Mr. Cohen at the Trades Hall. I would not like to associate either the Leader of the Opposition or the right honorable member for Swan with all the sins that have been committed in the name of Liberalism. Would I fasten upon them responsibility for such attacks as that which’ was made by Mr. Waddell upon Mr. Justice Higgins ? When a man makes an attack of that description, he must stand upon his own ground. I ask the Leader of the Opposition in all seriousness whether he thinks that I would murder a man because he was not a unionist?
– The honorable member has never denounced the statement of Mr. Cohen.
– I have never heard the right honorable member denounce the state-: ments made by Mr. Waddell in reference to Mr. Justice Higgins. But I embrace the first opportunity I have had to say that’ every one of my colleagues in this Parliament repudiates Mr. Cohen’s statement. At the last election I was confronted at the town of Chinchilla with a slip of paper which set out that some irresponsible individual in Adelaide had said, “ To hell with the farmers.” The organizers of my opponent actually went round the town and told the electors that I had made the statement, and I was charged with it upon the public platform. My reply to the electors was, “ If you believe that I made the statement attributed to me, record your votes in favour of the other candidate, but I can assure you, on my word of honour as a man, that I have too much sense to say such a thing, even if I thought it.” I do not charge honorable members opposite with the misdeeds of the Liberals in New South Wales, who are always raving about law and order. Until the other day, there was never an occasion in the history of Australia upon which the services of the police had to be requisitioned to quell a disturbance amongst these law-and-order gentlemen.
– There has never been a case where the Speaker was bought.
Mjr. PAGE. - When the honorable member for North Sydney was speaking, he hurled a disgraceful charge against honorable members on this side of the House.
– Order !
– Well, I will say a very bad charge. He said, “ Are we to be controlled and governed by shearers, rouseabouts, and skulkers?” A few minutes before that the honorable member swelled with pride, like a bullfrog on a log, when he told us that he had started at the bottom rung of fortune’s ladder, at £32 a year, and to-day is, as he said, Colonel Ryrie of New South Wales. If ever there was a man who weighed himself in the scales of vanity it was that honorable member. He told us that he was against trade unionists, that he supported everything that the Leader of the Opposition had said against preference, and that, even if he had to play a lone hand, he would be against the policy of the Government. Yet he admitted that he was a scab on his own union.
– Order ! The honorable member must withdraw that remark.
– I will withdraw the remark, and say that the honorable member was a white wing on his own union.
– Order !
– Well, Mr. Speaker, what is a white wing ?
– I have asked the honorable member to withdraw the remark he made, and he must withdraw it without qualification.
– Out of deference to you, and to the Chair, sir, I withdraw the remark without reservation. I can quite understand the honorable member for North Sydney being against all unionism and all preference. He spoke as if he were the. hub of the universe, and as though he considered that he was the only man in the Federal Parliament fit to govern. In fact, he ignored all the rules of parliamentary procedure, and practically rebelled against his own leader. The Leader of the Opposition will have to crack the whip over the honorable member, or he will have a little cave growing up in his party. The fusion is not complete even to-day. We have the honorable member for Parkes sitting apart, and now we have the honorable member for North Sydney joining him.
– Is the honorable member going to connect these remarks with the subject?
– Yes, sir, because I am replying to what the honorable member for North Sydney said. I venture to say that if the shearers and rouseabouts have not brains enough to look after themselves politically, they had, at any rate, brains enough, as members of the Bushmen’s Contingents, to go to fight the- battles of the Empire in South Africa, where they distinguished themselves by their capacity and individuality in helping to bring the war to a termination.
– Where were the colonels then?
– I have nothing to say against them. Some of the officers were the bravest of the brave. Others I would rather say nothing about. I think it illbecomes that honorable member to cast any aspersions upon the bushmen of this country, whether they are members of the Australian Workers Union or not. I will deal now with another little bit of preference. A Bill was introduced into the State Parliament of Victoria yesterday by Mr. Mackey and Mr. Bowser. This was a double-barrelled arrangement. The Bill was one to amend the Supreme Court Act. Honorable members opposite are against preference to unionists, but I will ask them in all seriousness - particularly the honorable member for Flinders - what this means -
Every person who (not being a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court) either directly or indirectly for or in anticipation of any fee gain or reward draws or prepares any instrument relating to real estate or any proceeding in any Court or before any Judge Magistrate or Justice shall be guilty of an offence. Provided that this section shall not extend to any person authorized by law to draw or prepare such instrument or proceedings or employed merely to engross or copy the same or to any public officer drawing or preparing official instruments in the course of his duty.
– The meaning seems clear, I should have thought.
– What would the honorable member say that the meaning was?
– What it says.
– I know very well what is in the mind of the honorable member, and will not press the question. As a layman, I shall put my own interpretation upon it, and if that be wrong the legal members can tell me so. I say that it is preference to unionists, pure and simple.
– It is absolute preference. And, I do not hesitate to say, more power to the lawyers. I am not one of those who cavil about the union or association of lawyers. It is a grand thing, and we are going to try and copy it as far as we possibly can. Some honorable members on this side of the House have found fault with the British Medical Association, but I believe in every man being a member of some association. I am with the honorable member for Flinders all the way, and if, at any time, a chance occurs of putting his advice into practice, I shall be one of the strongest champions on his side. With regard to preference generally, I say that - the blackleg worker is a non-combatant in the industrial army, yet he does not hesitate to take the gains the fighters in the ranks obtain.
My experience of blacklegs is this : When any of these gentlemen are brought along to break a strike, what happens? No sooner is an agreement made with the unionists than the free-labourer is looking for a job. The honorable member for Richmond must know that the Australian Workers Union will not gain one pennyworth of benefit from this edict issued by the Minister of Home Affairs. The Commonwealth does not own even a cow, and if it did the Australian Workers Union would not shear the animal. We may own a few horses, and the tails of some of them have been docked, but I can assure the House that they were not shorn by members of the Australian Worker’s Union. They would never have done such a thing. I can also tell the honorablemember for Richmond that there is not a man in this Parliament who is a member of the Australian Workers -Union but is proud of it - not one of us ! It is an organization that has done much, not only for us as individuals, but for Australia as: a nation. I will say candidly, for my own part, that if it were not for the Australian Workers Union I should not be here today. The honorable member has referred to the amount of money spent by the Australian Workers Union on political work. We are going to spend ten timesas much in the future as we have done in the past. And, as I said before, we are quite willing to pay our tax for unionism, because the union of the honorable member for Fawkner is paying it.
– I thought that we were only allowed to spend £100 apiece.
– I am not saying anything about what we are allowed to spend. My election last year cost me £8, and I have an electorate as large as New South Wales. Can the honorable member say the same?
– How much did the union pay for you?
– I have not the slightest idea; and I never inquired.
– They could not have paid your hotel expenses.
– No; they always put me up free. If they do not know when they have a good man, I know when I have a good constituency. The honorable member for Swan made some references recently to the question of election expenses. I may say, in passing, that I entirely agree with what he said. What is the use of our making restrictions in that regard if we do not carry them out? The honorable member for Parramatta has stated - and the honorable member for Richmond repeated the statement to-night - that every member of the Australian Workers Union was politically roped in by the union.
– I made no such statement.
– Did not the honorable member say that we made unionists of men for the purpose of getting them into the political union?
– I do not think that my words can be interpreted in that way. That was not the line of my argument.
– What did the honorable member say ?
– I am not going to make a second speech.
– I will make a speech for the honorable member. It is of no use for honorable gentlemen to throw dust into the eyes of the people of Australia by saying one thing and meaning another, by talking with their tongues in their cheeks. I maintain that our Courts are pure, and, as far as I know, our system of balloting at elections is pure. I have the utmost faith in the ballot system and in the Courts. How can the secrecy of the ballot be maintained if, as honorable members opposite have told us repeatedly, every man who takes an Australian Workers Union ticket is going to vote for Labour? Let me tell honorable gentlemen a little yarn, and the honorable member for Fawkner will know what I mean as I proceed.
– Did you ever ask a man how he was going to vote?
– No; but the organizers do occasionally.
– Exactly; and that is just the point.
– I never ask a man how he is going to vote; nor do I ever ask a man for a vote. But I start out with about 5,000 votes in. my pocket, if that is information for the honorable gentleman. In the Australian Workers Union we have a peculiar way of working preference to unionists. The Courts will not give it to us.
– Have you not a lot of peculiar ways?
– Yes ; we are like the Chinese.
For ways that are dark
And tricks that are vain, political organizations are peculiar. That applies to both sides. I admit candidly that in the Australian Workers Union we have a peculiar way. Perhaps some of the honorable members opposite might gain a little from our experience, though the honorable member for Fawkner may know as much as we know.
– There is not much that he does not know.
-I admit that ; but we know a little more sometimes. We have a method of getting a man to take a ticket, particularly when he says, “I will see you in Jericho first.” The organizer simply goes to the cook and says, “ Jim Page will not take a ticket.” “ Well,” the cook replies, “ I will not cook for him; put him on the wood-heap.” The man goes up to the store and gets his bit of tucker. He comes down and cooks for himself, but only for one meal. When the time for the next meal comes round he goes up to the delegate and gets a ticket.
– That is how you “ cook “ the returns?
– No; our returns will stand investigation, and have done so. The honorable member for Richmond, though he is a juggler with figures, could not juggle the £5,000 to his own satisfaction and that of the House. A lump sum of £5,000 is neither here nor there when you have not much.He told us that £5,000 was being expended in sundry ways. Do honorable members opposite know that the legal profession got the bulk of that sum?
– The other union.
– Yes. That is what we had to pay for preference to unionists. To-day in the Courts we are spending several thousand pounds to get an award. Not only are we doing that, but the pastoralists unions, too. We expect to spend some more thousands when they take us on a question of jurisdiction to the High Court. Both of us are prepared to spend a little more. Our outlay is 15s. per member, and £1 for the daily newspaper, and we are prepared to spend another £1 if it is wanted. We intend to have a daily newspaper, in spite of the Age and Argus in Melbourne, the Herald and Telegraph in Sydney, and the Courier and the Daily Mail in Brisbane. That is one of the levies that we make.
– Order !
– I am treading on very thin ice now, and, like the Leader of the Opposition, I must get back to earth. I have a lot of other matter, but I do not intend to deal with it to-night. So far as I am concerned, with regard to our war in the past, bygones are bygones. I can say, without fear of contradiction, that some of my firmest friends in Queensland to-day are persons who were opposed to us in the strike of 1891. I have only a few more words to say. In the language of the poet -
Lift the Labour banner high,
Shake its stars against the sky ;
Freemen give your battle cry”;
Cheer your flag unfurled.
Put the hand to Labour’s plough,
Set the crown on Labour’s brow ;
Labour’s cause is God-like now ;
Labour rules the world.
– In the course of a very interesting speech, the honorable member for Maranoa did me the honour to refer to certain words which I uttered a few nights ago; but he appeared to me to lay a good deal of stress on one-half of what I said, and to throw the other half into a decent obscurity. The words which I uttered then were not lightly spoken; they were the result of much thought on the subject to which they related. I said then, as I say now, that I believe that the path to industrial peace lies, and lies only, through extended organization on the side both of labour and of capital. I believe firmly that, with the conditions always growing more complex, and more difficult to deal with as time goes on, not in this country only, but throughout the world, the industrial problem will never be solved so long as both sides are split into a state of disintegration. There _must be organization. But this is a part of my statement to which I think the honorable member did not give, perhaps, quite as much weight as to the other : I ventured to point out that the only kind of organization that could possibly achieve that end, or take any steps towards it, is organization which not only obeys the law, but gives substantial guarantees for an effective obedience of the law. Without that, such organization would not tend in the direction of peace, but in the other direction. One reason why I object to the step which has been taken by the Minister of Home Affairs is that, to my mind, it will have exactly the contrary effect to what the honorable member for Maranoa expects from it. In the first place, it is not a recognition of the kind of association to which I referred, but is giving a reward and premium to members of associations that are not bound, either by law or by their own expressed intention, to refrain from the worst forms of industrial warfare.
– Please say that again !
– I shall say it in another, and, possibly, better way. I agree with the honorable member for Maranoa in the very manly statement he made, as coming from that side of the House, that there can be no beating about the bush or question as to the meaning of the Minister’s statement. It is, as he said, as plain as possible. There is no use in the Government, while apparently indorsing the statement, not having the courage of their convictions, and saying so whole heartedly. It is a plain and distinct statement to the Director of Public Works- “ Take on unionists when you have the chance; send out non-unionists when you have the chance.” That is the plain, unadulterated, simple meaning of the statement. We are left in the dark, however, so far as Ministers are concerned. I have waited during the whole of . the debate, now I think approaching a close, to see if we could not get some utterance, apart from the indistinct, vague utterance of the Prime Minister, defining what the position of the Government is in regard to the matter. No such utterance has been made. Whenever we use argument, we are confronted by statements made by irresponsible supporters of the Government, instead of by definite statements from responsible Ministers as to their attitude in reference to the acts of their colleagues. The reason why I object to the formal and official order issued by the Minister of Home Affairs is that, when viewed rightly, it strikes a blow at the very foundations of responsible and democratic government. We have over and over again heard the argument from the other side during this debate that this House and Parliament have recognised preference to unionists - have recognised the right or duty on the part of private employers to give preference to unionists - and that, therefore, the Government should give similar preference. The answer to that is plain and simple. Private employers are masters of their own money, whereas the Government of the day are intrusted with the control of the funds of the public. Part of the public are those very people on whom a ban is being placed by this order ; and they are a large part of the people who ought not to be, by any order of the Government, prevented from having their fair share of public employment according to their merit, and not according to the accident of whether they have become members of unions or not - who ought to have a full right, and an equal right with others, to a chance of Government employment. This order has the effect of deliberately imposing a black mark and a disability on those persons whom the Government, in the administration of the public funds, and in the carrying on of the affairs of the Departments, ought to regard as beneficiaries for whom they are trustees. We have often laughed with the Minister of Home Affairs, and possibly sometimes laughed at him, when he introduced the American eagle here. But it becomes a much more serious matter when he introduces some American methods.
– He has the courage to do openly what others are doing privately !
– He has had the courage, or recklessness, to do something which has placed his colleagues in a seriously embarrassing position. I was not present when the Prime Minister made his speech; but after a careful perusal of it I can only say that we are left with the one thing unexplained, unwithdrawn, and unqualified - the statement contained in the minute of the Minister of Home Affairs himself.
– Where is there any doubt about it? The Prime Minister has said that, other things being equal, preference will be given in all cases to trade unionists.
– “ Other things being equal !” I have never heard any suggestion of preference to unionists under Act of Parliament except with the condition “ other things being equal.” Is not that condition laid down in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act? But when we have an order to be administered by the servants of the Minister who issues it, what is going to become of this “ other things being equal” ? Is it not as plain as possible that we have an order from the Minister, “ When you have a chance, turn out the non-unionists ; and when you have a chance, take on unionists?” The Minister of Home Affairs and his colleagues ought to have the courage of their opinions. Those who support them are not afraid; at any rate some of them are not. I do not intend to speak at any length on this question, because I think the arguments have been fully put. I have listened to many of the speeches, and read most of the others ; but I have as yet failed to find any argument brought forward on -the other side in reply to the arguments of the Leader of the Opposition and those who followed him. We have heard a good deal of argument, and very eloquent argument in some cases, in favour of unionism, and in favour of the application of preference in certain cases. But we have not heard one argument justifying the action of a responsible Government, having control as the trustees for the whole of the people of the funds of the country, in deliberately issuing an order - for that is’ the practical effect - that members of voluntary and irresponsible associations, not even registered under any Act imposing any obligation on them, and. which claim to retain the full right to strike on all occasions, shall have preference over all other citizens of the community in obtaining public employment. There is another aspect of the matter, and a grave one, about which I wish to say a few words.- Under orders issued by the Minister, preference over all other applicants will, as I have said, be ‘ given to members of all unions, including those which, not being registered under the Arbitration Act, are not prevented by law from striking in furtherance of what they conceive to be their interests. In directing Government officials when making appointments to give preference to members of unions, which have not been deprived of the right to strike, do not Ministers, in effect, acknowledge the right of public servants to strike against the authority of the State? I ask the adherents of the Government - because I despair of getting any definite answer from a Minister - if any one of them is ready to claim on behalf of the public servants that they possess the right to strike against the Government, which represents the community at large. Has any honorable member opposite the courage to say that the members of unions to whom preference is to be given should be permitted to join in a strike with fellow members of unions, which, not being registered, are not prevented by law from striking? It is rather an important question.
– The honorable member is not now in a Court of Law.
– For that reason I cannot compel an answer, but I ask if the question is not a fair one. Honorable members say, “ In administering the public funds,” which should be held for the benefit of the whole people, without distinction of class or creed, “ we are going 10 give preference to members of unions which claim the right to enforce their demands by a weapon which has not been declared unlawful - that of striking,” and I ask, Do they claim for the men who are so appointed to the Public Service the right to join their fellow unionists in a striker Perhaps before the debate is closed, an answer will be given to the question. Apparently, no honorable member opposite is prepared to say that the unionists to whom preference is to be given are entitled to strike against the Government which employs them. I see no reason why Government employment should not be given to unionists on the condition that it be clearly understood that, although they are members of unions, they are not to take part in any strike involving them in revolt against the constituted authority of the community.
– If they are well treated they will not have any cause to strike.
– The honorable member is now touching on a matter which will be of the greatest importance when we are considering the proposal of the Government to bring the employes of the Commonwealth under the Arbitration Act. There will be a good deal to say about it when that measure is before the House, but at, present it would not be in order to discuss it. The question which I have put is immediately connected with the action of he Minister of Home Affairs. If you effectively recognise the unions, you can do so only by recognising the right of those to whom you give employment to join their fellow unionists in any action they may deem necessary to further or protect their interests. I do not wish to repeat the numerous arguments which have been offered to the House, but as reference has been made to the proposal of the Government to make the Public Service subject to some tribunal other than Parliament, let me say that it must be intended either that the Arbitration Court shall be directed by Parliament to give preference to unionists, or that it shall be empowered to do so. If it be intended to empower it to give preference in suitable cases, I ask why should we not go further and direct it to do so?
– The Constitution would prevent that.
– Not having seen the measure, I do not know vhat constitutional objections there may be to its provisions, but from the point of view of policy, suppose the measure contained a provision that the Arbitration Court “ shall “ give preference to unionists, would honorable members be prepared to agree to it.
– No one suggests that.
– No; and yet honorable members opposite say that preference shall be given to unionists by a mere administrative act. They do not give to any person the right to discriminate and to perform the functions of a Court. They issue the peremptory mandate that in ap pointments to Government employment preference shall be given to unionists. But the Leader of the Opposition has dealt with that matter much more fully and better than I can. The point I rose to make is that, no matter how the question is looked at, it must be admitted that the Government of the day has departed from the traditions which have always prevailed in British communities. Instead of regarding the powers and moneys of the public as a great and sacred trust to be held in use for the whole people, it is using them for the benefit of a particular section, and one which has accorded them political support.
– I am rather surprised at the attitude taken up by almost every member of the Opposition during this debate. Had they admitted at the outset that this motion was submitted with a view of making certain political capital, and to discredit the Labour party before the country, I could have understood their position. But when they prate about their desire to protect individual liberty, and assert that their sole object is to preserve the right of the blackleg, one feels inclined to doubt their sincerity. Most of the Opposition have attacked the memorandum issued by the Minister of Home Affairs as an attempt to do away with the liberty of individuals who will not join a union.. We all know, however, that the wage-earners never enjoyed as much individual liberty as they have had since the establishment of unionism. There is no individual liberty for a man working in any establishment unless there is a union behind him. Let me put before honorable members the position of the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company, which years ago broke up a union formed by its employes, and persisted in treating those men in the most inhumane manner. They paid them as little as they pleased for twenty years, and no man in the employ of the company could say that he enjoyed any real liberty in the matter of his employment. Only within the last few months have the men risen in revolt, and formed a union, and only since then can it be said that they have had any individual liberty. The Opposition talk of the unfairness of the Government in giving preference to unionists, altogether ignoring the fact that those whom the Opposition represent have always given preference to non-unionists.
– That is a rather wild mis-statement.
– It is true. I have received instructions before to-day not to put on a unionist.
– I repeat that every member of the Opposition has been returned on the votes of men who have always given preference to non-unionists. The class of men who for centuries persecuted those who sought to band themselves into unions so as to secure individual liberty are represented by those who sit on the Opposition benches to-day. A free labourer - a “scab” - in the employ of the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company may commit any crime short of manslaughter while in charge of a car, and receive no worse punishment than being ordered to stand down for twenty-four hours. Practically, that is the severest punishment that a free labourer receives. But if one of the unionists in the employ of the company overruns his mark by two feet, he receives his walking ticket next morning. Those who band themselves into unions to gain certain legitimate industrial objects take up a manly attitude, but the same cannot be said of the individuals who are forming themselves into non-union unions, or what are described as unions of free labourers. Every one must recognise that their sole motive is to ingratiate themselves into the goodwill of their employers, so that their shortcomings will be overlooked. It is surprising to hear honorable members opposite expressing great consideration for those who have “ scabbed “ for years, and will continue to do so; it is surprising to hear them express their solicitude for those who have always refused to pay anything for the benefits secured by trade unions. Why do they not admit that all that the wage-earner enjoys to-day has been gained by unionism? The Opposition’ know very well that nothing but the worst that can be said can rightly be hurled at the blackleg. Even some employers, after making use of “ scabs “ during an industrial dispute, speak of them as blacklegs when the strike is over, and say they do not desire to have them in. their workshops, since their presence only causes trouble. The Opposition think they see in the memorandum issued by the Minister of Home Affairs an opportunity to put the Government in an unfavorable light before the people. They assert that they are attempting to protect these individuals - the “ scabs “ - who are already well protected by their employers; and when they declare that preference to unionists, as proposed by the Government, is wrong, we knowthat they cannot be sincere. I .have no desire to prolong the debate, but it does seem peculiar to me that the Opposition, who have been returned to this House as representatives of the people, should express consideration for only one section of the people in the industrial world, and that section the least deserving of consideration. Even the right honorable member for Swan, whom, I suppose, we may regard as one of the most illiberal members of the Opposition, would have no consideration for the individual who blacklegs on his fellow-workers, or for the individual who wishes to gain, without any payment, benefits which have cost his .fellows much to secure.
– That is all very well, but it is not the point. The point is that the Government are using trust money for the benefit of a particular class.
– The right honorable member gives away his case in making that statement, since he must know that there is nothing to prevent a man joining a union. In showing consideration for the unionist we recognise that section of thecommunity which, from an industrial standpoint, has done the most for Australia. Let: the right honorable member propose tocommence operations in any industry, and-, he will find that the men most worthy of his consideration - the men who will give him the best return for his money - are not the individuals whom the Opposition are so anxious to protect, but the unionists. Honorable members know how I shall vote on this question, so that there is no reason for me to explain my position. It is time, however, that the Opposition put this question in its proper light. The real question is whether the man or woman who pays for something has not the right to receive it in preference to the individual who tries to get a benefit, not by paying for it, but by sneaking and crawling and doing things in an underhand manner. That is the question, freed from all the legal technicalities which the honorable member for Flinders may try to introduce, and from all the verbiage of the honorable member for Ballarat.
Debate (on motion by Mr. Mcwilliams) adjourned.
House adjourned at 10.47 p.m.
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Global warming may be bad for asthma sufferers. Longer plant growing seasons are leading to weeds scattering vast amounts of pollen and conquering new territory, according to Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent for Reuters. By spring, pollen has been in the air for months in the northern hemisphere even in countries where snows normally bring a winter respite for allergics. In southern Sweden hazel trees have been flowering since December. “In the United States the incidence of asthma is up nearly four times since 1980,” said Paul Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. “No one has really been looking at the aerobiology dimension (such as pollen). But I think it helps account for it,” he said. Any further warming will make things worse.
Epstein ran a study showing that ragweed produced 60 percent more pollen when grown under twice normal concentration of carbon dioxide. At the same time, the stalks grew only 10 percent more. “Warming is touted as good for agriculture, but weeds may be reacting disproportionately fast,” he said. “This is an issue with great importance for human health and agricultural yields.”
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What is my list of numbers?
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Wednesday 9 May
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After years of working during school holidays in the loft with his father Col, Blake took the next step to join Doyle Sails in 2006.
Blake is a very active sailor and enjoys getting involved at all levels. This has led to sailing with teams that have won IRC and Class National Championships, as well as offshore racing, taking part in the ORCV offshore calendar every year and having completed several Sydney to Hobart yacht races.
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Wednesday 16 May
Darren is a regular speaker at the AWKR lecture series. As a National Judge and Umpire, as well as Vice-Chair of the Race Official Committee (and RMYS representative) Darren is our go-to person for all things rules.
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Working across multiple industries, Carol conducts masterclasses to help people excel in their personal and professional life by becoming more confident in their interactions with others.
Her desire to lead and educate others stems from a rich background in sport. Having been Victoria’s first female Surf Lifesaving Professional Lifeguard, she was proud to race alongside men in Ironman events due to the lack of opportunity for women.
Her master’s thesis: “Women’s Perceived Barriers to Elite Coaching Positions in Australian Sport” was used widely in the Australian Sports Commission when determining policies for women in sport.
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Wednesday 30 May
Strategy: The No-Brainer Race
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Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks via Changes in Volatility
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- Markku Lanne & Helmut Lütkepohl, 2008. "Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks via Changes in Volatility," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 40(6), pages 1131-1149, September.
- Markku Lanne & Helmut Luetkepohl, 2006. "Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks via Changes in Volatility," CESifo Working Paper Series 1744, CESifo Group Munich.
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KeywordsMonetary policy; structural vector autoregressive analysis; vector autoregressive process; impulse responses;
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... Targeted tax cuts aimed at encouraging people or corporations to invest in the United States -- rather than sock the money away or divert it overseas -- would seem to hold the most promise for job creation, but Washington doesn't seem to be very good at hitting targets.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, his Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and others are now rattling their sabers because the Senate reached an agreement on a tax bill. It's not an agreement to raise taxes in any way on the rich, but an agreement to maintain a 2 percent tax cut for every working American who pays into Social Security. Unless something is done, just about everyone's take-home pay will be cut by 2 percentage points Jan. 1, when the 4.2 percent payroll tax reverts to its normal 6.2 percent.
The House passed a one-year extension of the tax cut, but it couldn't get a majority votes in the Senate because the Republican majority in the House demands spending cuts to cover the cost, while the Democratic majority in the Senate wants to close some tax breaks for the wealthy.
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The (Youngstown) Vindicator
Moratorium allows Postal Serviceneeded time to reorganize
In the midst of its busiest season, the financially troubled U.S. Postal Service has decided to delay changes that would have been tantamount to suicide. That is good news for consumers and for businesses that would have been slammed by plans to end next-day delivery of first-class mail and put the brakes on other services as well. Now postal executives and lawmakers must use the time to come up with realistic reorganization plans.
This month, the Postal Service announced it would lay off nearly 30,000 workers and close more than 250 processing centers to cut $3 billion from next year's budget and stave off bankruptcy. That would have triggered service delays that would have driven customers to find other options.
On Capitol Hill, where efforts to help the agency map its future are proceeding at snail-mail pace, legislators have applauded the moratorium. Yet many of these same lawmakers have impeded the Postal Service's search for solutions by denying the self-sustaining agency ... the ability to remake itself and compete.
... Lawmakers should give the Postal Service a fighting chance. That could include a fresh look at onerous pension-contribution requirements that the Postal Service complains have catapulted it toward insolvency.
A new study from England rates the U.S. Postal Service first among its peers in the world's 20 largest economies for access, efficiency and trust. The challenge is to preserve those outcomes amid heightened competition.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer
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- Rincon Mountain District, Saguaro National Park, Tuscon, Arizona
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The Manning Cabin sits in the Rincon Mountains in Saguaro National Park. Levi H. Manning had the cabin built in 1905 for use as a mountain summer home. It was the first such retreat built in the Rincon Mountains.
The cabin was built using pack horses and wagons to transport materials to the site. Trees for the cabin came from the immediate vicinity. The log structure contained a living room with a fireplace, a kitchen, two bedrooms, and two small bunk rooms. The cabin also housed a piano, brought up from the Rincon Valley via the wagon road.
The Manning family used the cabin as a summer home from mid-summer 1905 to mid-1907. In 1907, the area became part of the Coronado National Forest. For several subsequent years, Manning leased the land from the Forest Service but did not use the cabin again.
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Spotlight Finally on Privet
Tip necrosis symptoms on Chinese privet.
Privet (Ligustrum spp.) has a large native range, across Europe to eastern Asia and south to Queensland, Australia. There are approximately 40 species, but only four have been introduced to New Zealand: tree privet (L. lucidum), Chinese privet (L. sinense), common privet (L. vulgare), and Californian privet (L. ovalifolium).
Only tree privet and Chinese privet (referred to subsequently as privet) are considered to be seriously invasive weeds here currently. They are most common north of the Bay of Plenty, but also occur elsewhere throughout the North Island. Both species are only rarely found in the warmer parts of the South Island.
Privet can be highly invasive because it produces abundant dark bluish or purplish black berries that are eaten and dispersed by birds. In New Zealand bird dispersal of seeds is allowing privet to invade native plant communities where it suppresses regeneration of native species by reducing seedling survival and growth. Privet is also seriously unpopular with many people as its pollen can cause allergies including hay fever and asthma. Regional council phone lines ring red hot with complaints during the flowering season. This is slightly ironic given that privet was introduced to New Zealand as an ornamental and has been a popular hedge plant for many years in home gardens. The leaves of mature privet are also poisonous to stock.
Privet control is difficult because many of the habitats it invades preclude blanket spraying and make individual plants hard to find. Seedlings can be pulled or dug out, while older plants can be cut down, but the stumps must be treated with herbicide to prevent resprouting. Plants can also be poisoned by stem injection. Biocontrol potentially offers a much more cost-effective and sustainable method of control for privet. We looked into the feasibility of this back in 2000, but funds to begin a project did not become available until nearly a decade later. As usual our first step was to survey the plants in New Zealand to gain an appreciation of their current natural enemies here, which was completed recently. Between July 2009 and May 2012 we sampled three species of privet (L. lucidum, L. sinense and L. vulgare) from 39 New Zealand sites, ranging from Kaeo in the north of the North Island to Maruia and Granity in the South.
The result was typical of what we tend to find during such surveys. A wide range of native and introduced invertebrates are associated with privet in New Zealand but the damage caused is minimal (<2% of foliage currently consumed). Moth larvae, and in particular leafrollers (Tortricidae) and looper moths (Geometridae), appear to be causing the most obvious damage to privet foliage. One particularly interesting moth found (currently thought to be Trichophysetis cretacea) was reared from privet berries. Adults of this moth were first found in New Zealand in 1999 but its host plants were unknown until now. The larvae of this moth feed inside the berries and leave a neat round exit hole when they leave to pupate. The moth was not present at all sites, but where it was present it was sometimes causing a moderate amount of damage to berries. T. cretacea is native to China and Japan where it is known to be a pest of jasmine (Jasminium polyanthum), which is in the same family (Oleaceae) as privet. Further research is needed to determine whether they offer any potential for biocontrol purposes in New Zealand, especially given jasmine is both a very popular ornamental species and an up and coming weed in warmer parts of the country.
“Native puriri moth caterpillars (Aenetus virescens) are also quite common on privet, producing characteristic tunnels and feeding scars in the trunks,” explained Chris Winks, who did much of the actual survey work. Passionvine hopper (Scolypopa australis) and the green plant hopper (Siphanta acuta) were common at many sites but the damage caused by sap-feeders like these, either directly by removal of nutrients or indirectly by puncturing the plant and possibly allowing the entry of pathogens, is very difficult to quantify. The combined effect of generalist predators such as spiders, earwigs, ants, and praying mantids could inhibit the effectiveness of some potential invertebrate biocontrol agents for privet, and parasitoids identified during this survey could affect some potential lepidopteran biocontrol agents. These factors will need to be considered down the track when shortlists of potential biocontrol agents are being prepared.
Few primary fungal pathogens were found on privet, and the plant was healthier than many other weeds we have surveyed here. Symptoms observed included discrete leaf spots, tip and marginal scalds, but no obvious candidates for biocontrol purposes. Overall there appear to be no specialist privet natural enemies in New Zealand (apart from perhaps T. cretacea, whose host-range is not yet fully understood) and therefore there would appear to be good potential for improving privet control by introducing some. “We will look into this further and undertake screening of potential biocontrol agents once funds permit,” explained Stan Bellgard, who currently has overall responsibility for the project.
Some potential biocontrol agents are already known, as various privet species are considered to be weeds in the USA, Australia, Argentina, Mauritius and Réunion, so some work has already been undertaken. CABI Europe – UK has surveyed in Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam and China for potential biocontrol agents for L. robustum subsp. walkeri, which is problematic in Mauritius and Réunion. They identified three insect agents one of which, a moth (Epiplema albida), was found to be sufficiently host specific to be considered for release but has not yet been mobilised. Chinese privet has become one of the worst invasive plants in the south-eastern United States where it is considered a severe threat to ecosystems from Texas to Florida, and north as far as the New England states. Surveys for potential insect biocontrol agents for the USA were conducted in China during 2005 and 2006 with more than 100 species found feeding on the plant. The two thought to be the most promising, a leaf-mining flea beetle (Argopistes tsekooni) and a lacebug (Leptoypha hospita), have since been studied in more detail. James Hanula, of the US Forest Service, Georgia, reports that the beetle is probably not sufficiently specific to release in the USA and that they are currently completing testing of the lace bug and hope to request permission to release it shortly.
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Antonio Conte refuses to take a parting shot at Diego Costa
But, the main news is that Eden Hazard is still not fit enough to make the starting lineup, according to Antonio Conte at least. And Morata added two more after half-time - a run and shot from a tight angle and a tap-in from Azpilicueta's chested pass.
Players with the Jackson Jaguars and the Baltimore Ravens responded Sunday morning to Trump's demands that owners suspend or fire players who protested the national anthem. "This is about respect for the military and first responders in the country". "This is about respect for lots of people, and I don't understand why there's rules that when the Dallas Cowboys wanted to put stickers on their helmets out of respect for people there, they couldn't do it, but now the National Football League is saying people should be able to decide what they want to do and disrespect the United States flag".
"The president believes it is his role to improve race relations", Short said on NBC's "Meet the Press".
"I had a secure call that day that was critical, and set up, and needed to be done at that time", Mnuchin said.
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In the cycle of concerts ‘Born in Riga,’ soprano Inga Kalna, who, coming from Riga, is an internationally known soloist applauded to in Italy, France, England, Canada, USA, Israel, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, the Netherlands and elsewhere, will perform in LNO. The programs of the soprano include almost all of the best lyrical soprano parties in the classical Western European repertoire.
Thematic division: Thirst for the Ocean
Begins : 17.05.2014 16:00
- Latvian National Opera
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For a country of merely 2 million people, Latvia has produced a disproporionately large numer of world class classical musicians who work and perform with the best orchestras, and delight audiences in the most renowled concert halls and opera houses around the world. Through the concert cycle Born in Riga we welcome the stars back home in Riga for individual and joint concerts.
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Notes for a cause
Oscar-winner AR Rahman shared the poster of a documentary series that he's a part of, which focuses on the lives of underprivileged children at a school in Bengaluru
AR Rahman shared the poster of a documentary series to be released via Netflix this Friday on Twitter. The series, Daughters of Destiny, featuring music by Rahman, has the tagline ‘From Invisible to Unstoppable.’
Directed by Vanessa Roth, the documentary will focus on a Bengaluru-based school which provides free education to underprivileged children. According to sources, the lives of the children studying in this school will be brought to life through this project.
On the film front, Rahman is currently busy with Mersal, Sangamithra and 2.0, besides Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s Beyond the Clouds. | <urn:uuid:200451cb-d2fd-491e-aaef-e49df488d274> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/news/2017/jul/24/notes-for-a-cause-1271.html | 2018-11-17T00:51:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743247.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20181116235534-20181117021534-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.956318 | 177 | [
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Please join Crawl in Boston to tour the Faneuil Hall area. We’re excited to once again bringing you the Halloween Crawl aka Costume Crawl. Get your costumes ready!
Here’s some good information to know:
* Supports the Birthday Wishes Charity (www.birthdaywishes.org)
* Optional donation to crawl with us – Crawl in Boston wants to provide you with as much fun as possible for as little as possible! – Crawlers are responsible for their own drinks.
Who is Crawl in Boston?
Crawl in Boston is a social networking group that gives professionals a chance to meet new people in a casual and fun atmosphere. People of all ages have gathered to join the bar crawls, and we’ve raised money and goods for local charities. We also spread the word about other similar events we’ve heard about, as well as new places and bar/restaurant specials. We’re bringing people together, one drink at a time for local charities.
Who is Birthday Wishes?
The Birthday Wishes mission is simple: To bring birthday parties to homeless children. Birthday Wishes recognizes the importance of a birthday in a child’s life and believes that the gift of a birthday celebration provides normalcy, joy and hope in these children’s otherwise unsettled lives.
Their grassroots philosophy fosters the spirit of volunteerism and community service in the adults, children and families who donate their time and resources to our mission.
What does this event cost?
We are asking for $5.00 to attend. Please keep in mind that proceeds of your optional donation will go towards the Birthday Wishes charity. However everyone who donates will also be receiving:
*Crawl in Boston Nametag
*Crawl in Boston Beverage Koozie (LIMITED TO 1ST 400 PEOPLE)
How Do I Sign Up?
You don’t have to. We only ask you RSVP on the Facebook event ASAP. This gives us a better idea on how many people are coming. We can better arrange our schedule so the bars have enough staff to accommodate you all. Also helps let us know how many koozies to order.
What’s the Schedule?
The schedule will be posted as the event gets closer. The finalized schedule will be printed on nametags. Schedule and details are subject to change without prior notice.
10/31/09 – Halloween Crawl
(subject to change)
2:30 – The Place – 2 Broad Street
3:30 – JA Stats – 99 Broad Street
4:30 – Red Sky – 18 North Street
5:30 – Trinity – 63 Chatham Street
6:30 – McFadden’s – 148 State Street
7:30 – Kitty O’Shea’s – 131 State Street
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Flying with Grace Join Christie + Dylan in a 2-part (Sat / Sun) inversion workshop series - exploring headstand, forearm balance + handstand from the ground up! This dynamic duo will be sharing their best secrets to unlocking these postures: you’ll learn the foundation + mechanics of these inversions, entrance + exit techniques, as well as exercises that will improve your inversion practice - no matter what level you are. All the essentials will be covered so you will leave knowing how to practice inversions with efficiency, grace + lightness while simultaneously releasing the fears and / or negative self-talk that may have been previously holding you back from inversions. you will gain a great perspective and understanding of what it takes to make some breakthroughs in all aspects of these elusive poses! This workshop will focus on: — a thorough study of deep stretching, mobility + strength-training drills — foundations of safely and gracefully exiting these three inversions; aka learning HOW TO FALL out of inversions — the fundamental alignment points for all inversions — greater knowledge of body mechanics — deeper core awareness — leaving this workshop feeling confident and empowered to kick, jump, or press up without the safety net of the wall! — a toolbelt of drills, and techniques that you can add to your own practice — newfound confidence in your ability to practice inversions Whether you've only taken a few classes, or are a seasoned yogi, all skill levels are welcome to this workshop! Day 1: Headstand + Forearmstand, Saturday 12/8 11:30am-2:30pm Day 2: Handstand, Sunday 12/9 11:30am-2:30pm (must attend Saturday in order to attend Sunday) ——— pricing: Weekend - $150 Saturday only - $80 Email/DM/Contact us today in order to sign up! | <urn:uuid:e902f0e3-ece7-4cea-b051-fb2e9b01b4f8> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://www.pictame.com/user/tribefitsf/1566324039 | 2018-11-17T01:42:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743247.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20181116235534-20181117021534-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.918963 | 377 | [
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A trace from our intention to dream together on February 14, Athens Greece
Listen to our Dream Session Preparations mixed by Manos from recordings of our group’s tentative attempts to create a collective atmosphere for dreaming.
Our dream page provides a description of self-made training centers with sleeping bags and hot milk in rooms and open spaces for take off.
With units of pressure increasing in the crisis in Athens, dream rates are increasing, the aviation industry expanding, and the demand for qualified flying personnel has never been greater.… More
On Wednesday, February 13, in collaboration with Oneiric Traces, and in preparation for our attempts to infiltrate the collective unconscious of Athens with guerrilla optimism, we begin our first act of collective slumber. In the home of one of the optimists, each bringing images, subliminal motivations and other aids to induce lucid slumber, we train ourselves for an active, and buoyant, state of rest.… More | <urn:uuid:f52c1be6-c0db-45f1-a51d-968476f0739f> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://www.socialsatisfaction.org/socialdreamlab/tag/flight-training-slumber-action/ | 2018-11-17T01:13:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743247.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20181116235534-20181117021534-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.914806 | 195 | [
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Leeds United would be well served to renew their interest in Celtic's Anthony Stokes this summer.
Leeds United's interest in Celtic striker Anthony Stokes, as reported by the Daily Mail, was knocked back in January, but if they remain keen on the Republic of Ireland international then their chances of signing him this summer appear to have increased.
Stokes has been in poor form for the Bhoys recently and his place in Ronny Deila's team appears to be under threat.
The addition of Gary Mackay-Steven has increased competition for places on the wings and Stokes, as a result, has seen less first-team football than he would have liked.
The 26-year-old has started just one league match for Celtic since January 22nd and his future at Parkhead could be cast into doubt when the summer rolls around.
Stokes has generally been utilised in a peripheral role at Celtic this campaign, with the forward unable to break into the team in his more favoured central-striking position.
Deila seems to prefer Leigh Griffiths and John Guidetti to Stokes as front-men, and that means there are question marks over where he fits in.
That could be good news for Leeds, who were said to be keen on the attacker only two months ago.
The Whites have reportedly identified Stokes as a player that could enhance their starting line-up, with his poise in possession considered to be something which is currently missing in their squad.
Leeds have limited funds available to them, as they are struggling to comply with Financial Fair Play regulations, but with Stokes' future at Celtic being questioned, they may be able to convince the Scottish champions to do a deal.
That transfer could be of benefit for all parties and it seems that Leeds would be well served to renew their interest at the end of the season, if they still consider Stokes to be a valuable addition. | <urn:uuid:ae5c245e-b050-4efb-bbc7-098e180416af> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2015/03/10/why-leeds-could-have-the-perfect-opportunity-to-land-reported-ce/ | 2018-11-17T01:23:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743247.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20181116235534-20181117021534-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.987753 | 393 | [
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The family of Greville Janner wants the public inquiry into child abuse to delay its investigation into the late Labour peer.
Lord Janner, 87, who died in December, is alleged to have abused youngsters over a period spanning more than 30 years dating back to the 1950s, with offending said to have taken place at children’s homes and hotels.
The allegations against him are due to be examined at hearings of the public inquiry next March.
But his son has said that as civil proceedings by some of his alleged victims have been started, the claims should go through the courts – where his father’s accusers can be cross-examined – before they feature in the inquiry.
Daniel Janner QC told the BBC he had prepared a submission for the Home Affairs Select Committee which is due to question Home Secretary Amber Rudd next month.
He said: “We very much hope that the committee will question carefully why the inquiry is planning to make findings of fact in relation to my late father when he is dead, when he cannot answer back, when he has never been convicted of any offence and is entirely innocent.
“Moreover we are denied the right to cross-examine what we know to be false allegations and we say this process actually discredits the important work of the inquiry.
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We’re sitting here as a group in the terminal waiting to board our plane. It’s been a fun filled evening of no sleep and preparing for the trip. The morning is still young, it’s not quite bright yet but a handful of us have our coffee/tea in hand ready for a full day of travel. There’s a lot of buzz among everyone about their free day and what to do in the evenings. So many things to think of for our journey ahead but plenty of time to make a spur of the moment decision as well. I personally cant wait to know everyone better to have a really great trip! 🙂
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Next time you’re in a bad mood, don’t fight it. Put it to work, and thank evolution for giving you such a flexible cognitive toolbox.
That’s one of the take-home messages in behavioral sciences writer Bruce Bower’s article about the unexpected benefits of negative moods. Gloomy moods just make people better suited to certain tasks. Years of laboratory studies show that a low mood — a diffuse, lingering and largely unconscious state distinct from an intensely experienced burst of emotion — can improve memory, judgment, motivation and consideration of others. Some research suggests that a bad mood promotes shifting to alternative ways of thinking about a problem, while a good mood encourages people to stay the course. Of course, happy moods have their advantages too: creative, big-picture thinking is one. Psychologist Joseph Forgas of the University of New South Wales in Sydney believes that that’s as it should be, and worries that | <urn:uuid:3dda431c-f309-4e81-8c46-cfe7a56d21e9> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.sciencenews.org/article/don%E2%80%99t-worry-be-grumpy-and-take-nature%E2%80%99s-cycles-stride | 2018-11-13T02:35:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741192.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20181113020909-20181113042909-00439.warc.gz | en | 0.91859 | 198 | [
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Nothing turns a commonplace, ho-hum room into a radiant, inviting setting faster than the flicker of a few ordinary candles scattered strategically throughout the room. Add scented candles and you can quickly evoke childhood memories, transport your imagination to a tropical island, or infuse the room with the crisp scent of a pine forest. Aromatherapy candles add yet another dimension to the equation.
Aromatherapy candles release a small, but continuous stream of herbal and floral essential oils into the air as they burn. The chemicals in the essential oils enter your body as you breathe, and travel throughout the body, including the brain, through the bloodstream. You receive subtle benefits as the chemicals interact with your body. Don't expect to receive full healing benefits by lighting a candle, but aromatherapy candles provide the same dual benefits inherent in conventional aromatherapy in less concentrated doses: smell therapy and chemical reactions to the essential oils.
Burn aromatherapy candles to alter, enhance, and improve your state of mind while adding a touch of nature's pure perfume to your surroundings. What a pleasant, powerful quick fix to an otherwise rotten day, not to mention a less destructive alternative to downing a pint of ice cream or a pound of chocolate to chase away the blahs.
Let aromatherapy candles help set the right mood for others with whom you spend time. Your guests will only know that you have that "special something," that magical touch when it comes to hospitality.
Tips for Using Aromatherapy Candles:
Make sure that you purchase aromatherapy candles, not just scented candles. Look for labels that include "pure essential oils."
Select the right candle for the situation. The best way to ensure that you have selected the best candle to achieve your goal is to purchase a candle with labeling that reflects your desired effect.
Invigorate - Perhaps you arrive home lethargic and drained after a grueling day at work, and like so many other busy parents, your workday at home is just beginning-with no time for an intervening catnap. Treat yourself to a short break, and light an energizing aromatherapy candle. Invigorating candles typically contain some mixture of oils from the mint and citrus families. The mint essential oils-peppermint, spearmint, basil, and eucalyptus-provide quick stimulation, revitalization, and an extra dose of energy. Other invigorating essential oils include cedar, rosemary, cinnamon, geranium, cassia, and vanilla.
Relax ? Sometimes a sense of accomplishment or closure leaves you wired. You know that feeling. You've finished a big project, and you're bursting at the seams with energy when you really want to kick back, relax and enjoy some quiet time. Light a stress-releasing aromatherapy candle, take a few deep breaths, and allow your mind to clear. Stress-releasing essential oils include lavender, chamomile, patchouli, geranium and rose.
Concentrate - Use aromatherapy candles to improve concentration when you need to tap into your creative powers. Nothing sparks creativity like the ability to concentrate and block mental and environmental distractions. Citrus essential oils help you to concentrate: lemon, orange, grapefruit, lemongrass, and bergamot.
Add atmosphere ? You've planned a quiet evening at home with that special someone, and you've made every effort to impress. You've cooked a dinner right out of a Parisian bistro, fresh flowers grace your home, the table is set with china and linen napkins, the wine is chilling, and you've never looked better. Add the final touch with an aromatherapy candle containing some of the sensual essential oils: Ylang ylang, vanilla, neroli, rose, clary sage, sandalwood.
When using candles to add atmosphere, grouping candles together is fine, but less can be more. You're striving for natural and nonchalant: think elegant understatement, not sacrificial altar.
When you light more than one aromatherapy candle, burn candles with complementary, not competing essential oils. You don't want to burn candles with invigorating oils along with candles that contain a relaxing mixture of oils. Your body will receive mixed signals.
Why reserve your aromatherapy candles for special occasions or for company? Add an elegant touch and a little mood to your everyday life. What else can add so much pleasure with so little effort? Include aromatherapy candles in your repertoire to turn the mere ordinary into the extraordinary.
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October was a rubbish month for Wanderers – just a solitary point gained at Rotherham, while we lost to Stoke, Blackburn, Nottingham Forest and Hull City. Still, we’re going to have a Player of the Month vote, because I need to write content. And we’re going to do this properly…
Here are the four nominations, polls close Wednesday afternoon, as ever it’s all on Twitter.
We're doing a Player of the Month vote. I don't care if you think nobody deserves it. Vote now!
— Vital Bolton (@VitalBolton) October 29, 2018
On here by default, as he was the scorer of our solitary goal in October. Thankfully, we don’t do goal of the month awards.
Hobbs has cemented his place in the back line, whether we play two or three centre-backs. Better on the ball than the other options in that position going by recent displays.
The effort has been there and he has had a few chances. Just a shame his penalty at Rotherham was saved.
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Project Strato-Lab was the United States Navy’s upper atmosphere research program, begun in the early 1950’s. Its plastic balloons took adventurous Americans up to the top of the stratosphere, over 21 1/2 mILes (34 1/2 kms) above the earth. The most famous of these intrepid aeronauts was Malcolm D. Ross. Born on October 15, 1919 in Momence healthcare hospital, ILlinois, Malcolm Ross attended Purdue University where he studied engineering and physics, and worked as a sports announcer at the Purdue radio station. Graduating in 1941, he married his high school sweetheart, and then took different broadcasting jobs in Chicago and Indianapolis. Early in 1943 he entered the United States Navy which sent him to graduate school at the University of Chicago in aerological engineering. He obtained a professional certificate in atmospheric science, and he graduated from U. Chicago with a meteorology master’s degree working from hospitals in Chicago area in 1944. He was initially assigned by the Navy to Pearl Harbor’s Fleet Weather Center, and later served on the USS Saratoga as aerology officer during its missions against Iwo Jima and Tokyo in 1944 and 1945.
At the end of the Second World War, Malcolm Ross left the Navy and moved to Pasadena, where he started an advertising agency with his wife Marjorie. The business was successful, but with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 the United States Navy recalled Ross to active duty. Ross went to work for Project Skyhook, the Navy’s unmanned balloon program, based in Minneapolis. He began to direct high altitude balloon missions to obtain meteorological and cosmic ray data; and in 1954 he was assigned to begin Project Strato-Lab, the Navy’s manned balloon program. Using balloons made of thin polyethylene plastic which weighed but a fraction of the rubber balloons used previously, humans for the first time were able to perform experiments and make observations at the upper reaches of the earth’s stratosphere. Project Strato-Lab was instrumental in providing biomedical data which was used subsequently in the United States space program. One outcome of these experiments was the knowledge that protons resulting from solar flares can pose a major health risk to humans in space; which in turn sparked research in monitoring and predicting solar flares. The Strato-lab project was also a major contributor to astronomical observation above the atmosphere.
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Hi guys, remember how I said I’d see you for the next chapter? Well – I lied 😀 Here I am, ready to be all rambly. Both Rosemary and Jowita were kind enough to tag me in the OC (Original Character) Tag. The rules for this one are as follows:
- Pick a character you’ve created.
- Fill in the questions/statements as if you were that character.
- Tag at least four people to do this meme.
Now, ’cause I’m a rambly bugger, I’ll be doing my main characters for both stories (and you can’t stop me!) Since this is a Monte Vista week, let’s start with the Monte Vista main characters, shall we? I’m answering these as happening right now in the storyline so if you haven’t read and want to beware of spoilers ahead.
- What is your name? Vittoria Mancini, though I was born Lisa Nespola and then it was changed to Lisa Giocondo. I went by Vittoria Nespola for a while so at this point it might be easier to ask what names I haven’t gone by.
- Do you know why you were named that? Yes. I chose Vittoria myself because frankly it was better than anything associated with my mother. Mancini is my married name.
- Single or taken? Legally I’m still married. In reality… let’s say it’s complicated and leave it at that.
- Stop being a Mary Sue! That’s not even a question.
- What’s your eye color? Olive green.
- How about hair color? Brown.
- Have you any family members? I have two children. Legally – a husband and a brother-in-law. Let’s just say that whether that’ll still be the case a week from now is also… complicated. Oh, and there’s my mother. Wouldn’t want to forget her, I guess.
- Oh, how about pets? No.
- That’s cool, I guess. Now tell me something you don’t like? It’s easier to talk about things I do like. I find that most people are sadistic, petty, and impossible to trust. Hmm, I guess that’ll do: I don’t like people. Or at least, I like very few.
- Do you have any activities/hobbies that you like to do? Well, if it has to be something I like – sculpting.
- Have you ever hurt anyone in any way before? Oh, have I ever.
- Ever… killed anyone before? I was raised to kill. And that’s not some kind of metaphor; I mean it literally… so that’s always a good icebreaker at parties.
- What kind of animal are you? That’s a strange question. Which I am not going to justify with an answer.
- Name your worst weaknesses. There’s one. He lives in Monte Vista.
- Do you look up to anyone at all? Please refer to the answer above.
- Are you straight, gay or bisexual? Straight as an arrow.
- Do you go to school? Nope. And I never have. Gangs aren’t big on education or breaking the social heritage.
- Ever want to marry and have kids one day? I’m already married, at least, and say it with me again now: legally. And I have kids. Can’t say any of that was planned, but that’s life for you.
- Do you have fangirls/fanboys? I’ve made it a habit to not be a likeable person at all, so no.
- What are you most afraid of? I just don’t want any of my family to get hurt. I’ll do anything to avoid it. I suppose that’s a fear.
- What do you usually wear? Anything comfortable. I used to have to dress up to keep the respect of the gang and now I’m kind of back to that. I miss my canvas shoes, to be honest.
- What’s one food that tempts you? I never thought about that, so I can’t say.
- Am I annoying you? Yeah, actually, you are.
- Well, it’s not over! Well, let’s get on with it, then.
- What class are you (low class, middle class, high class)? Lowest of the low.
- How many friends do you have? You don’t have friends when you live the kind of life I do. I have a few, but those belong to before I left home.
- What are your thoughts on pie? I eat it if it’s served.
- Favorite drink? Well, I wouldn’t say no to a beer, though I’ve learnt to enjoy wine to a certain extent since I met my husband.
- What’s your favorite place? My former home in Monte Vista.
- Are you interested in anyone? That’s a very… high-school-y question. I guess I’m not.
- That was a stupid question. You said that, not me.
- Would you rather swim in a lake or the ocean? Pass. I don’t want to swim at all, really.
- What’s your type? Is Not An Asshole a type? Because I’ve come to appreciate that with a man.
- Any fetishes? Ha, ha, ha… Yes.
- Camping or indoors? Indoors.
- What is your name? Carlo Mancini.
- Do you know why you were named that? I can’t say I do.
- Single or taken? I’m married. As long as that lasts.
- Stop being a Mary Sue! What?
- What’s your eye color? Golden.
- How about hair color? Brown.
- Have you any family members? I have two kids and a brother. He’s married, so a sister-in-law. A wife as well… and a mother-in-law. Those are mouthful, though.
- Oh, how about pets? None.
- That’s cool, I guess. Now tell me something you don’t like? Pointless cruelty. At least, I prefer it when violence has a point, whether that be to protect yourself or the ones who rely on you.
- Do you have any activities/hobbies that you like to do? I paint and I used to enjoy gardening. I just haven’t done much of it since we lost the family villa.
- Have you ever hurt anyone in any way before? I have. Despite my best efforts, I’ve hurt the people I love most many times.
- Ever… killed anyone before? Not personally, no.
- What kind of animal are you? I’m not one.
- Name your worst weaknesses. I guess I’m… too nice.
- Do you look up to anyone at all? My father, even if I haven’t been able to live in a way that honours his memory.
- Are you straight, gay or bisexual? Straight.
- Do you go to school? No.
- Ever want to marry and have kids one day? I’m married and I have kids. It was something I always wanted but it’s turned out that at least the former isn’t easy.
- Do you have fangirls/fanboys? Certainly not.
- What are you most afraid of? I don’t want harm to come to the people who are under my protection and who rely on me.
- What do you usually wear? Well-tailored suits.
- What’s one food that tempts you? Anything cooked by my brother. He has a gift.
- Am I annoying you? No, no, please go on.
- Well, it’s not over! Like I said: go on.
- What class are you (low class, middle class, high class)? I’m sort of… outside of classes. My job is profitable but I can’t claim to be part of the higher classes. I mingle with them for business reasons, at times, though.
- How many friends do you have? All my men are my friends, as well as my brother and his wife.
- What are your thoughts on pie? It’s not a great favourite of mine.
- Favorite drink? Red wine. Good red wine.
- What’s your favorite place? The Monte Vista Museum used to be one. It no longer is and I can’t think of any other place that’s taken its place. Perhaps my home.
- Are you interested in anyone? Not at the moment.
- That was a stupid question. It’s perfectly fine.
- Would you rather swim in a lake or the ocean? The ocean.
- What’s your type? I used to think I fell for innocence. I’m no longer so sure.
- Any fetishes? That’s a little too personal.
- Camping or indoors? I prefer to be indoors, as I enjoy my creature comforts.
So, there we are. I took more pictures for this than needed
but it totally wasn’t ’cause I’m still squeeing over the HQ mod but oh my god look at how pretty! Carlo stop being so pretty I’m going to diiiiieeeeeee…
*Clears throat* Anyway, so yeah, I want to do this for the CoM characters as well (Genevieve, Nadir, and Celeste at least), though if there are any that come to mind you’d like to see, do say 🙂 As for tagging, I can’t tag four (I think everyone’s been tagged by Jowita!), but I can and will tag Ripu Ancestor again. This time for Chrysanthemum Tango because I really, really, really want to see the characters from that story answer – they’re just incredible and loveable, all of them 🙂 (Just go read it already it’s so good).
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Martin – lying in the Žilina Region – mayor Andrej Hrnčiar said this at a news conference on July 13. He added that steps taken by PK Faktoring’s distrainment bailiff who only a few days ago delivered a distrainment order to carry out property seizures in the form of the sale of selected real estate owned by the city, contradict the law.
“We filed an objection against the distrainment proceedings at Martin District Court,” Hrnčiar sai, aas quoted by the TASR newswire. “Until the Constitutional Court issues its verdict, we propose that the entire sum of the claim should be deposited in notarial custody and that the one who wins the case should get it. If we pay out the claim at issue now and win the case, it's highly unlikely that we'll get this money back. It [PK Faktoring] is a company with limited liability, and the money would already be somewhere else at that time.” He added that the city decided not to take out a loan that has been approved for it yet.
The city of Martin still doesn't recognise the existence of the claim, which is the result of a long-term dispute involving Martinské Hole Ski Resort, according to Hrnčiar. He said that PK Faktoring’s bailiff is putting psychological pressure on the city's management and city councillors via his steps.
”He’s openly violated the law,” Martin mayor said. “We’re going to turn to the justice minister [Lucia Žitňanská] over this as well. The current law doesn’t allow the sale of land and buildings that have been included in the distrainment order, such as the Turčianska Gallery.”
The Constitutional Court has accepted Martin’s complaint in the case – which is good news according to its mayor. "The CC obviously sees reasons, showing that our constitutional rights were violated, and thus we have a chance to success in this dispute,” Hrnčiar summed up, as quoted by the SITA newswire.
The city of Martin was put under forced administration due to this claim in late March. The case concerns an alleged violation of certain legal commitments dating back to the mid-1990s, with the city supposedly failing to meet contractual obligations to register property under Martinské Hole Ski Resort on behalf of the actual property holder.
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I've been knitting away on my Tegna Top and Kecia's Sweater but they're seemingly never ending! In order to not get completely burnt out, I've thrown in a quick, fun project to keep myself entertained.
The pattern is Kiela Mittens by Meiju K-P on Ravelry.
Photo by Meiju K-P/Tanu Kallio
So far this is an easy to follow pattern with a cable chart and written out instructions.
The yarn I'm using is Tuskenknits DK in the colorway Doune. It's a Wool/Cashmere/Nylon blend. It's absolutely magical to work with, it's super soft and has a lovely spring to it from the Nylon.
So far I'm almost done with mitten #1! I'm having a little trouble picking up the thumb stitches without making them look all sloppy-like but I'm sure I'll figure it out.
This pattern has a "do not sell items that are knitted with this pattern" disclaimer so, unfortunately, these mitts will not end up in my shop. Most likely, these puppies will end up under someone's Christmas tree!
I'll have more updates soon!
Thanks for checking out my current WIP! Let me know what you think!
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CHAIN earrings suit perfect the same called CHAIN ring.
They are made as well from sterling silver.
This earrings are around 4 cm long and made from the so called anchor chain with diamond cut. Each element measures 6.8 mm, the ear stud's length is 10 mm.
You can choose between silver or oxidized CHAIN earrings.Oxidized silver:
A special kind of tincture is applied onto the silver, this causes an extreme oxidizing of the material. It is not harmful at all. Neither to your skin, nor to your clothing.
First black than anthracite, this effect will use off after wearing the piece, how fast depends on how you wear the jewel. We think though, this used-look just makes the jewel look even more charming, instead of being a loss of quality. Oxidizing the jewel again can be done at any time. | <urn:uuid:3ee5b2e4-f117-40e5-b2ab-340d2a01b761> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.bkreb.com/products/chain-earrings | 2018-11-19T17:25:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039746061.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20181119171420-20181119193420-00119.warc.gz | en | 0.932835 | 198 | [
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, NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 – Barclays Bank has recorded a 14 percent drop in pre-tax profit for the 2013 full year to Sh11.1 billion from Sh13 billion posted the previous year.
The drop was attributed to rise in operating costs which increased by Sh16 billion compared to Sh14 billion in 2012.
Releasing the financial performance, Barclays Chief Finance Officer Yusuf Omari said total expenses were largely due to staff costs which hit Sh8.1 billion compared to Sh7.8 billion in 2012.
Omari also noted that the rise in costs was partially due to investment in technology which focused on improving the core banking platform, mobile and Internet banking services as well as online bulk payment system.
“Barclays undertook a branch expansion and refurbishment project as well as investment in ‘intelligent’ ATMs with functionalities such as touch screen capability, cash deposit and cheque book ordering in order to deliver an enhanced customer experience,” he said.
Total income rose by 2 percent to Sh27.9 billion from Sh27.4 billion while total assets increased by 12 percent to Sh207 billion from Sh185 billion.
Net interest income rose by 4 percent to Sh18 billion on the back of growth interest earning assets, despite the pressure of declining interest rates.
Non-interest income dropped by 2 percent to Sh9 billion mainly due to reduced foreign exchange income following a stable currency market in the year.
Loan and advances to customers rose steadily by Sh14 billion to close the year at Sh118 billion.
“Barclays remains confident about the three year growth strategy. 2013 has been about building strong foundation as reflected in the recent investment and operational changes,” Barclays Kenya Managing Director Jeremy Awori said during an investor briefing on Thursday.
Shareholders will take home 50 cents per share as final dividend recommended by the bank’s board.
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Bob Mauterstock, CFP®, ChFC, CLTC, is an accomplished speaker, author and sought after authority on the financial concerns of baby boomers and their adult children.
For over 35 years, Bob has helped families achieve a worry-free, comfortable retirement. He has inspired baby boomers and their adult children to give each other the gift of communication and preserve their legacy for future generations. In 1987 he qualified as a Certified Financial Planner® and became a specialist in retirement income planning, long term care planning, investment management and legacy planning. In 2009 he sold his practice to a regional accounting firm, which was then transferred to Kevin Leahy, CFP®, who established Connecticut Wealth Management, LLC in 2010.
In 1987 Bob qualified as a Certified Financial Planner® and became a specialist in retirement income planning, long term care planning, investment management and legacy planning. In 2009 he sold his practice to a regional accounting firm, which was then transferred to Kevin Leahy, CFP®, who established Connecticut Wealth Management, LLC in 2010.
Bob now speaks to a wide range of audiences through workshops, trainings, meetings, and consultations, as well as doing presentations for organizations and corporations. You can read more about Bob and his work on his website and through his blog on GiftofCommunication.com.
Publications and Presentations by Bob Mauterstock, CFP®, ChFC, CLTC
Bob Mauterstock is the author of Can We Talk? A Financial Guide for Boomers Assisting Their Elderly Parents, Passing the Torch, Critical Conversations with Your Adult Children, and Financial Advisor Safeguard Volume 1: How to Protect Yourself, Your Practice and Your Aging Clients Who Have Diminished Mental Capacity.
Bob has been quoted in a number of publications and appeared on several radio programs. In addition, he has spoken to groups of financial advisors and their clients throughout the country. Some of the companies, organizations and conferences where Bob has presented include:
- National NAPFA (National Association of Personal Financial Advisors) Conference
- National IMCA (Investment and Wealth Professionals) Conference
- FPABE (Financial Planning Association) Conference
- FPA (Financial Planning Association) State Chapters: Connecticut, Greater Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Philly-Tri-State, Southern Wisconsin, Tampa, SW Florida, Tennessee and West Palm Beach
- Berkshire Money Management
Popular presentations by Bob Mauterstock for financial advisors include:
- Working with Clients with Diminished Capacity
What do you do when you discover that one of your clients has a diminished mental capacity? According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s disease will strike more than 8 million Americans by 2030 (a rise of 60% from 2010). If you don’t know what steps to take to protect your client and your practice, both may be at risk. Bob has developed a protocol that you can follow to deal with this problem. Attend his workshop and learn the steps you can take to help your aging clients and preserve the business you have worked so hard to build.
- Passing the Torch: Critical Conversations Your Clients Must Have
Boomers are concerned about the conversations they need to have with their adult children about all the issues they will face as they get older. Passing the Torch gives you, as their advisor, a practical and empathetic approach to help them work with their children to discuss and plan all the decisions they will have to make. This workshop lays out the steps to prepare and hold a family meeting to open up the lines of communication. It addresses such critical areas as legal issues that can impact the family, end of life planning, health care planning and passing on a legacy to the next generation.
Bob Mauterstock delivers a workshop for clients of financial advisors:
- Critical Conversations You Must Have with Your Family
Bob has presented a number of workshops to advisors’ clients to give the advisor additional credibility and add value to their relationship. In these workshops he includes the following topics:
- Simple techniques to bridge the communication gap between generations
- Understanding the critical issues that are most important to the family
- The 5 essential legal issues that boomers must address
- How to create a long-term care plan for the family
- 7 tips for gathering and organizing the critical information clients need to plan for the future
Books by Bob Mauterstock (available on Amazon or Bob’s website GiftofCommunication.com)
Bob Mauterstock holds a Master’s Degree in Education from University of Connecticut and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Princeton University. He is a former Navy helicopter pilot and holds the CFP®, ChFC, and CLTC designations.
Bob is an active member of the Financial Planning Association. He serves on the Board of Directors for Cape Mediation and the Brewster Ladies’ Library, He is a member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics and the Nauset Newcomers.
Thank you so much for speaking at the FPA of Southwest Florida’s first symposium. As I was chatting with people, they really appreciated the practical advice you provided to help them with their clients. Having key takeaways like that are so important.”
Tom Pattrica, CFP®, FPA of SW Florida Chapter
Bob Mauterstock’s presentation regarding the importance of having conversations with our aging parents on the topics of money, living wills, comfort care and after-life wishes was very informative and enlightening. He brought to life these difficult topics by sharing his personal experiences as well as the experiences of people that he has helped during his career… It was an eye-opener. I would highly recommend Bob for any organization who wishes to share these topics in a caring and thoughtful presentation.”
Margaret Holmes, Executive Director, Mayflower Place Continuing Care Retirement Community
Have Bob Mauterstock speak at your event!
Bob Mauterstock is an experienced speaker and presenter with a passion for providing industry-leading information to audiences. Bob is available to speak at your retirement meeting, conference or event.
Inquire here about having Bob Mauterstock speak at your conference or event!
Learn more about all Retirement Speakers Bureau presenters to find the one that’s best for your event.
Retirement Resource Center webinar courses available from Bob Mauterstock
Elder financial abuse is a growing problem creating annual losses to families estimated to exceed $2.9 Billion per year.
As retiring boomers become part of this population the problem is expected to increase dramatically.
It is critical for financial advisors to be aware of recent legislation that will affect their ability to deal with this crisis, and understand the steps they can take to help their clients avoid significant loss resulting from financial abuse.
This webinar will give advisors the skills they need to protect their clients.
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Sruth Mòr, Na h-Eileanan Siar
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Sruth Mòr is a hamlet in Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Unitary Authority: Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Region: Scotland
- Category: Populated Place
- Type: Hamlet
- Latitude/Longitude: 57°36'15"N 7°10'42"W
- Eastings/Northings: 90799, 868951
- OS Grid: NF907689
- Mapcode Local: GBR 88NM.JQG
- Mapcode Global: WGW3D.P4TC
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